President Muhamamdu Buhari, has said
that Nnamdi Kanu is provoking the Military to embark on massive
killings, for the purpose of using it to bring down his government.
He said: “There is a deliberate sinister
agenda by IPOB, to provoke the Soldiers into killing innocent people in
retaliation, so that Nnamdi Kanu would use the pictures of the
victims for international propaganda, by accusing the government of
ethnic cleansing against the Igbos, with the sole purpose of gaining
sympathy.”
He also condemned the former Minister of
Education, Oby Ezekwesili, for questioning the rationale behind the
deployment of the Military troop to the South-East.
Buhari made this known through his Media
Aide, Garba Shehu, who wondered why Ezekwesilii was “timidly silent”
over the “lawlessness” of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, but
found the voice to condemn the activities of the Army in Abia State.
This came in reaction to Ezekwesili’s
warning to Buhari, not to alienate the entire Igbo race through the
on-going Operation Python Dance II in the region.
He said: “While it is convenient for the
Civil Society Activist to condemn the Military and the government of
President Buhari, Mrs Ezekwesili did not find it appropriate, even once,
to criticise the dangerous and violent propaganda being propagated by
the IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Oby, as they call her, tweets on
everything. Why was she silent on this one?”
Shehu wondered why Ezekwesili “retreated
to the background or lost her voice while IPOB supporters were
violently molesting, attacking, and jeopardising the lives of indigenes
and non-indigenes.
“Her hypocritical and timid silence,
while Kanu’s IPOB supporters were engaged in lawlessness and
recklessness in violation of his bail conditions, is a burden on her
credibility as a national crusader, who should be courageous to condemn
criminality.
“This art of using a raincoat while taking a bath is nothing short of self-deceit.
“Seeking to make political capital out
of a chaotic situation is highly unbecoming of her, and of the
reputation she has worked hard to build over the years.”
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