Nmamdi Kanu says Atiku is originally from Cameroon

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is originally
from Cameroon and became Nigerian only through a
referendum.

Kanu said this on Saturday during a “special broadcast” on Radio
Biafra, according to a statement from Emma Powerful, IPOB
spokesman.

He was speaking on the need for a referendum on IPOB’s quest for
a sovereign state of Biafra, and on boycott of the upcoming
elections to achieve this.

According to Kanu, Atiku is from former Sarduana province of
Cameroon that later joined Nigeria through a referendum.

“Time and again, boycott, historically has proven to be a
necessary tool of both active and passive resistance,” he said.

“I need not mention other nations, which in the recent past, had
applied boycott as a means to expressing and achieving their
demands for freedom.

“Nigeria’s experience with election boycott in 1964 tells the
same story but they have banned history and thus won’t teach you
that in schools. They won’t tell you that Chief Obafemi Awolowo
used boycott of elections to achieve his goal in the west.

“They also won’t tell you that it’s referendum (called a
plebiscite in this case) that brought about the creation of an
autonomous mid-west region of Nigeria in 1963, and before then –
the unification of the former Sarduana province of Cameroon (where
Atiku came from) with Nigeria, and part of southeastern Nigeria
joined Cameroon.

“All through a referendum, and heavens did not fall. It was that
referendum in the north-east that enabled Atiku Abubakar to become
a Nigeria otherwise he would be a Cameroonian today.

“Why is it that the same process that made it possible for Atiku
to become a Nigerian instead of a Cameroonian cannot be extended to
me as a Biafran?”

Kanu added that the Igbo boycotting the general election “is an
indirect referendum and therefore should be considered a major
assignment between now and the night of February, 16th 2019.”

Kanu had alleged that a clone he referred to as Jubril from
Sudan is the one in charge of Nigeria, not President Muhammadu
Buhari.

Weeks after the rumor went viral, Buhari dismissed it, saying he
is in control of the country.