The All Progressives Congress ( APC) in Lagos has described the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and his fellow agitators as a bunch of illiterates that are out simply to dupe people, saying that their agitation was hopeless.

The party’s Publicity Secretary in the state, Mr. Igbokwe said in a statement today, Tuesday that Nnamdi Kanu and his co-agitators are just wasting their time and energy, adding that the leaders of IPOB are only using the Biafra agitation to dupe gullible ones of their money.

“Now that he has been granted bail, he should just quietly go home and rest. We are not a candidate of Biafra. They are just dissipating their energy for nothing. I just hope he will just go home quietly and stop disturbing the peace of the country”.

“We are not for Biafra. We can’t build Nigeria for others.The so-called Biafra is too small for us. Nigeria provides a big stage for us. We own this country. We are a major ethnic group in this country. How can you go for a small pond when you have Atlantic Ocean?”

“So Nnamdi Kanu should go home quietly. He should stop his reckless and stupid agitation. The agitation has no political or economic sense”.

“It is a hopeless agitation that we are not interested in. They are just using it to make money from gullible ones. It is a collection of illiterates.” [myad]

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is reported to have rejected the bail granted to him today, Tuesday by Justice Binta Nyako on health grounds and vowed to remain in Kuje prisons with his co-accused persons.

A source close to the detained Biafran Republic agitator said: ‎”I just finished speaking with Kanu. He has vowed to remain at Kuje prisons pending when his co-accused persons are granted bail.

“He made it clear that these other three persons were arrested because of him (Nnamdi) and as such he can’t abandon them there; that he is ready to stay and die at Kuje Prisons.”

The judge who granted Kanu bail, refused the same bail for his co-accused persons – Mazi Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Mazi Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi.

Meanwhile, a statement by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, Comrade Emma Powerful reacting to the bail conditions, the IPBO described them as childish, adding that they were designed by politicians.

“The indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB and it’s leadership worldwide commend those who put pressure on Nigerian Government and her judiciary to release our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in detention illegally since October 2015.

“The bail conditions which are most probably designed by politicians who are afraid of our leader’s popularity is too inhuman, childish and stringent.

“The oppressors are afraid of leader’s popularity and they hope to cage him through this funny bail condition, we are not excited, we demand the release of our members detained alongside him.

“It is unacceptable to the entire members of IPOB worldwide that the presiding judge Hon. Justice Binta Nyako attached condition towards the release of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“The Federal Government and their judiciary through justice Binta Nyako banned Mazi Nnamdi Kanu not to grant press interview, not to sit with more than 10 people or have any gathering.

“However, granting conditional release to our is unacceptable to us because he committed any crime against humanity or Nigerian state, we wondered why Binta Nyako would prefer to attach conditional release him.

“Again, justice Binta Nyako refused to grant Mazi Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Mazi Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi bail who has been detained with our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu since almost two years.

“We also thank the civilise Nations in United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Government, Israeli Government, Russian Government, European Union and others who prevail upon the Nigerian Government and her judiciary to grant our leader bail.

“We also want them to pressure on Nigerian Government and her judiciary to release other three members who are still in Kuje prison Abuja.” [myad]

Despite conceding defeat in the 2015 Presidential election, former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally made it clear that he was disappointed with the way the then chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega handled it.

In an advance copy of a book written by the chairman of THISDAY editorial board, Segun Adeniyi and titled: ‘Against the Run of Play,’ Dr. Jonathan said: “I was disappointed by Jega because I still cannot understand what was propelling him to act the way he did in the weeks preceding the election.

“As at the first week in February 2015 when about 40 percent of Nigerians had not collected their PVCs, Jega said INEC was ready to conduct an election in which millions of people would be disenfranchised.”

Ex President Jonathan said that he had a meeting with Jega to express his reservations about the preparedness of INEC for the exercise, but that he insisted that the election would go ahead.

“Of course, the Americans were encouraging him to go ahead yet they would never do such a thing in their own country.

“How could we have cynically disenfranchised about a third of our registered voters for no fault of theirs and still call that a credible election?

“The interesting thing was that the opposition also supported the idea of going on with the election that was bound to end in confusion.”

The election was scheduled for February 14, 2015, but the Jonathan government shifted it by six weeks. The action was greeted by strong criticism from Nigerians.

In the book, Jonathan also defended his decision to postpone the election, saying it was for security reasons.

“When the military and security chiefs demanded for more time to deal with the insurgency, the reasons were genuine,” he said.

“As at February 2015, it would have been very difficult to vote in Gombe, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

“But moment all the arms and ammunition that had been ordered finally arrived, the military was able to use them to degrade the capacity of Boko Haram to the level in which they posed the threat to the election.”

The book recounts how an incumbent lost a presidential election in Nigeria. It is due for launch on Friday this week. [myad]

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony.

Kanu can only go on bail if he can produce highly respected and a recognized jewish leader, a highly placed person of Igbo extraction such as a Senator and a highly respected person who is resident and owns landed property in Abuja with each depositing N100 million (making it N300 million).

The trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako, who delivered the judgment on the bail application today, Tuesday, said that her decision to release Kanu on bail was based on health grounds.

She held however that the bail would be consummated only after Kanu has produced the three sureties and the N100 Million each as prescribed, including other conditions such as being barred from attending any rally or granting any form of interview as part of his conditions for bail

“I must stress it here that the defendant must not attend any rally. He must not be in a crowd exceeding 10 persons,” the Judge warned.

Justice Nyako insisted that Kanu who has been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he was arrested by security operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from the United Kingdom, must sign an undertaken to make himself available for trial at all times.

Kanu was ordered to surrender his Nigerian and British international passports, even as the court compelled the federal government to return to him, his wedding ring and reading glasses.

Kanu’s co-defendants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi were denied bail by the court which has fixed July 11 and 12 to commence their trial.

Meanwhile, ‎Kanu has been returned to Kuje Prison pending perfection of his bail conditions. [myad]