With the growing protest for the release of Biafra air personnel Nnamdi Kanu and for a grant of self government by the advocates of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MOSSOB) some Northern elders have agreed to the effect that Ndigbo would be allowed to clinch the presidential seat in 2019 in which the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has described as politics of compensation.
Emma Powerful who is the Spokesman of the IPOB, spoke to newsmen Wednesday on the issue, said they are not interested in Nigeria’s affairs and politics any longer, adding that those flying the kite of Igbo presidency in 2019 is merely a distraction. Emma said what IPOB wants is to release their leader, Nnamdi Kanu from the detention and to allow Biafrans to go and not to play politics of compensation by telling Ndigbo that they will become the president in 2019, apparently reduce tension.
He recalled that politics of compensation was played during the June 12, 1993 saga when the Yorubas were compensated with Obasanjo presidency in place of M.K.O. Abiola’s annulled election, just as President Buhari was compensated because of Boko Haram insurgency.
According to him, “If politics of compensation was used to favour Obasanjo in place of June 12 annulment and was also used to favour Buhari in place insurgency, that is their own cup of tea. But for us in IPOB, we are not interested in that politics of compensation whereby we are being told that an Igboman will become Nigeria’s president in 2019 and we will begin to listen to them”.
“All we want or are interested in is to release our leader, Kanu and then allow Biafra to be and not Igbo presidency”, he stated.
