The Untold Story: Nnamdi Kanu and S/E Govs Meeting in Enugu | #IgbereTV

By: Chief Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko

A lot of people believe we all need to remember what happened exactly four years ago.

Four years ago, I was approached by the South East Governors Forum to arrange a meeting between Nnamdi and the South East Governors.

I pleaded with them to grant me the concession to involve an Igbo elder, they agreed. I invited Prof Ben Nwabueze and he accepted to lead us to the meeting.
At the meeting, Nnamdi agreed that his demands for secession and election boycott were not absolute, in other words, that he and his group were amenable to negotiations, as the dialogue progressed.

In my sitting room before the meeting, Nnamdi and I had agreed that presenting the need for a wholesome reconstruction of the polity, a constitutional conference where Nigerians would sit down to agree on the way forward, a get-together that will draft the people’s agreement, probably anchored on power devolution, true federalism and resource control via a new constitution, affirmed at a referendum, should be the group’s position. A constitution that would give every section, a sense of belonging.

Nnamdi INSISTED on the 1963 constitution model
He was reluctant to quiten all agitation for 24 months. He was willing to concede between 6 and 12 months, of peace and quiet, to allow the FG time to address the demand. This position was presented to the meeting.

The South East Governors agreed to take his demands to Abuja and get back at the next meeting, where Nnamdi will conclude the negotiations with his group.

In my car on our way home, I asked Nnamdi how he hoped to convince his group to flow with the national reconstruction agenda, just in case Abuja looks at it favourably. Nnamdi assured me that he had it all figured out. He believed he had to play the statesman for the sake of posterity.

The South East Governors demanded Nnamdi attended the follow-up meeting in a fortnight, with his group’s leadership.
On the eve of the proposed second meeting, Nnamdi’s residence was invaded.

Four years later, the FG is upbeat the agitation will soon be crushed because Nnamdi is in their custody once again.

Nnamdi’s followers, driven by emotion and anger, believe they will cripple the country and have their way. Well, the truth may be a little different from the two extreme positions.

Three months ago, circumstances forced me out of my self-imposed silence, to make certain interventions through my 155-point, 20 series social media post titled MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.

Disturbed by the possibility of a military invasion of the South East, that will not only destroy lives and infrastructure, but also injure the economic life of the region, I made public, certain truth that could stay the hand of the authorities, thereby avoiding a blood bath and massive destruction of the land.

Once again, I am forced to present these “unattractive” deep truths.

1 It is not true that Nnamdi’s detention has or will bring the agitation to an end. The agitation has never been about an individual. It has rather, always been about the suffocating unitary structure, the refusal to enthrone equity, fairplay, and a level playing field for all. It is about the impunity, nepotism and poor governance, enabled by the military’s decree 24 of 1999, a.k.a. the 1999 constitution. It has been about the lack of interest and loss of faith in the structure, format and style of governance in the country. A system that not only encourages massive corruption, but also makes it impossible for the established agencies to bring corrupt leaders to book. A system that rapidly grows unemployment, hamstrings State Governments and overloads the central government with duties it is unable to perform. A system that has failed all round, but is only sustained stubbornly and to the pleasure of certain folks, who believe that restructuring Nigeria may cost them their preeminent and dominant position in the country.

2 The deliberately woven false narrative that if Nnamdi is caged, then the agitation will die, is actually unpatriotic and unhelpful. The agitation is fuelled by the fear of eternal subjugation. Millions of young folks of my region are not willing to see their children go through the humiliation they experience in unitary Nigeria. Where they have been reduced to permanent onlookers and spectators in a country Azikiwe and co laboured and fought to build. The smart deception that the agitation is all about Nnamdi, is actually designed and cleverly sustained by people who do not want the truth addressed and the issues resolved.

3 The agitation which began 22 years ago, has grown greatly and would have overrun the region, had the agitators the good mind and needed skills to win over the elite of the region. Nevertheless, their near-total support and sympathy from the masses of the region and very huge diaspora presence, makes it unintelligent to write off the agitation. The masses are woke, intimidation has not worked, and earlier applied lethal force only deepened their anger.

4 The Governors of the region must show leadership now and engage Nnamdi immediately. They should visit, engage and sound out Nnamdi even in the DSS custody, to work out an amicable and peaceful roadmap to closure and harmony. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESOLVE THE CRISIS WITHOUT NNAMDI.
Those who think otherwise are naive or unfamiliar with the structure of the agitators and their modus operandi. The earlier the South East Governors visit Nnamdi in the DSS facility and begin talks with him, the better for the land. There’s no other way.

5 The importance of avoiding violent approach, cannot be over emphasized. The issues that inspired the agitation, must be addressed. The unhelpful and unhealthy structure of the country must be reconstructed. The nepotism, impunity, especially the brigandage of the murderous Fulani herdsmen, must become issues of the past. And, demonising the agitators must be stopped. It is wrong to consistently attack and demonize much abused youngsters, whose only sin, is that they can no longer swallow the wicked humiliation meted on them by their fellow countrymen, just because their parents lost a war in 1970. That you don’t agree with their style, does not make their cries for justice invalid.

6 Finally, its not true that you can cure your malaria by addressing the symptoms only. You solve your sickness by treating the root cause of the disease.

A: You run tests, identify the malaria parasites and address them with anti malaria drugs.

B: You cover your bed with treated mosquitoe net, and sleep in them.

C: You clear and clean your drainage, get rid of stagnant water in your gutter, and disinfect your compound.

Your malaria symptoms will only disappear once addressed from the root.
We will never get it right by obstinately ignoring the root cause, while gleefully attacking the symptoms.

The desire to crush the agitation forcefully is wrong and will backfire. The agitators should be engaged without delay. Clerics and credible elders should be used. Time is of essence.

TO BE CONTINUED.

Written by:
Chief Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko
Founder/President Igbo Youths Movement.

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Who says that Nigeria is indivisible?
Who stopped the Ijaws from seceding?
Who is the Governor that jailed Boro?
Who is the President that jailed Boro?
Who were the first friends of the Fooolanis?
Where was Ojukwu's place of birth?
Where was Azikiwe's place of birth.
Who betrayed the Fooolanis?
Who killed the Saudana?
Who says that anything below some feets underground belongs to the FG?
Who held Ijaw women hostage and threatened to kill them if Boro didn't surrender?


Please allow us to hear word and cry your cry alone, we are done with our cries.


Nonsense artifacts.

Yes oo, the struggle continues, till power returns to the south east



A won pple filled with hate

Kanu is gone, everyone is happy, fulani is happy, Yoruba is happy, SE Govts are happy. IPOB is sad

Spot on, kidnapping Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will not or deter our determination to free Biafra from bondage of Darkness.
All hail Biafra
God bless children of God.

ok na we don hear
NEXT

Nonsense and Nnamdi Kanu

All these PDP apologists keep talking like Nigeria started in 2015.

The 1963 Constitution still left the Niger Delta People without their own States

Militant30:
Who says that Nigeria is indivisible?
Who stopped the Ijaws from seceding?
Who is the Governor that jailed Boro?
Who is the President that jailed Boro?
Who were the first friends of the Fooolanis?
Where was Ojukwu's place of birth?
Where was Azikiwe's place of birth.
Who betrayed the Fooolanis?
Who killed the Saudana?
Who says that anything below some feets underground belongs to the FG?
Who held Ijaw women hostage and threatened to kill them if Boro didn't surrender?


Please allow us to hear word and cry your cry alone, we are done with our cries.


Nonsense artifacts.

OK.
But we know the people that are getting just 3% from their God's given resources ......shame

K

SlyDev:
Kanu is gone, everyone is happy, fulani is happy, Yoruba is happy, SE Govts are happy. IPOB is sad

You are on your own

Rubbish. Who is nnamdi kanu that will be insisting on constitution or whatever?
Who the Bleep is the he - goat?

Any group that consistently calls Nigeria a zoo, abuses other tribes and threatens to wage war against the country if they don’t get what they are asking for don’t deserve to be on a negotiation table. You can’t negotiate with such people.

A new leader of the Biafra agitation will arise in a few years with more diplomacy and tact. This IPOB lot are damaged goods.

There are many idiots in this thread... Goes to show how unintelligent many nairalanders are... The truth is, this entire article is on point as much as you guys might hate to hear it, it is the truth. Vilifying Nnamdi Kanu while supporting this evil government and all it's atrocities will come back to hunt later in the future, we are just beginning to suffer for it now sef. His methods might not be righteous, but it doesn't tint the validity of his cause.
Dear nairalanders, your bigotry won't take you anywhere. You might laugh at current predicaments of kanu, tomorrow it will surely be your turn.

Sergio101:

OK.
But we know the people that are getting just 3% from their God's given resources ......shame

I know that it was the Igbos that are controlling the ones in Imo state.


Nonesense Choirmistress

amc:
Any group that consistently calls Nigeria a zoo, abuses other tribes and threatens to wage war against the country if they don’t get what they are asking for don’t deserve to be on a negotiation table. You can’t negotiate with such people.

A new leader of the Biafra agitation will arise in a few years with more diplomacy and tact. This IPOB lot are damaged goods.

His threats of war might be dumb and uncalled for, but face the truth NIGERIA IS A ZOO!!! Is this how a nation should be? Killings, banditry, terrorism, nepotism, corruption, human rights abuse, severe economic collapse all unchecked, my brother na how e suppose be? Everyday we are on a steady decline, no good news. We have gotten to the point where nothing happening is now a good thing, because it's all bad news and despair! We are steady reaching the likes of Venezuela and Afghanistan, failed states! Know the truth and know peace that NIGERIAN IS A LAWLESS ZOO!!!

DSoj:
Rubbish. Who is nnamdi kanu that will be insisting on constitution or whatever?
Who the Bleep is the he - goat?

If you like don't follow to insist... Dey there dey ask nonsense question. Na when Nigeria become the new Venezuela, na when your eyes go clear!

SUPPORTED.

The NASS SHOULD SCRAP THE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF DECREE 24 AND LIMIT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MILITARY, ON EQUALITY OF STATES BASIS, AND TREATIES SEALING ONLY.

Militant30:
Who says that Nigeria is indivisible?
Who stopped the Ijaws from seceding?
Who is the Governor that jailed Boro?
Who is the President that jailed Boro?
Who were the first friends of the Fooolanis?
Where was Ojukwu's place of birth?
Where was Azikiwe's place of birth.
Who betrayed the Fooolanis?
Who killed the Saudana?
Who says that anything below some feets underground belongs to the FG?
Who held Ijaw women hostage and threatened to kill them if Boro didn't surrender?


Please allow us to hear word and cry your cry alone, we are done with our cries.


Nonsense artifacts.

Continue to bring up nonsense to fuel your hate... When the nation collapses, na all of us e go reach... So ride on with your blind hatered and bigotry, because E be like say this current suffering too dey sweet you.

SUPPORTED.

The NASS SHOULD SCRAP THE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF DECREE 24 AND LIMIT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MILITARY, ON EQUALITY OF STATES BASIS, AND TREATIES SEALING ONLY.

ANYTHING ELSE IS POSTPONING THE DOOMSDAY

Kanu will do anything to ensure Biafra does not come. He needs the business to keep going.

orisa37:
SUPPORTED.

The NASS SHOULD SCRAP THE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF DECREE 24 AND LIMIT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MILITARY, ON EQUALITY OF STATES BASIS, AND TREATIES SEALING ONLY.

Finally someone on nairaland with sense!!!

Only the truth will set Nigeria free

Arthurity1:

His threats of war might be dumb and uncalled for, but face the truth NIGERIA IS A ZOO!!! Is this how a nation should be? Killings, banditry, terrorism, nepotism, corruption, human rights abuse, severe economic collapse all unchecked, my brother na how e suppose be? Everyday we are on a steady decline, no good news. We have gotten to the point where nothing happening is now a good thing, because it's all bad news and despair! We are steady reaching the likes of Venezuela and Afghanistan, failed states! Know the truth and know peace that NIGERIAN IS A LAWLESS ZOO!!!

He and his group have been calling Nigeria a zoo well before the insecurity got this bad.

And the banditry and terrorism is confined to about 6 states about of the 36 states. Majority of the states are pretty safe and are far from the evil. All the other things you listed like corruption, economic downturn, human rights abuse etc also happens is the so called developed countries and nobody calls them a zoo.

Nigeria has its problems and they are many and poor leadership is mostly responsible. And it cuts across all ethnic groups. But Mazi Kanu and his IPOB group thrive on bigotry and hate towards the two other major ethnic groups. His speeches are laced with so much hate for those ethnic groups and it not surprising that majority of those groups now dislike him and his group with a passion. He has made so many enemies that he shouldn’t have made and it makes his job of forming alliances a huge task.

He could have chosen a different strategy but he knew it was a win win for him to bash Fulanis and Yorubas as a means to grow his followers, and to threaten war in order to revenge for 1967. Very bad strategy.

Okoroawusa:
Nonsense and Nnamdi Kanu

All these PDP apologists keep talking like Nigeria started in 2015.

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Suffering and smiling means you like to suffer and is born to suffer, go ahead and enjoy your suffering but the 5% will rather die fighting than live the life you live, that you see the CHAINS and SHACKLES on your hand and legs as ornaments of GOLD and DIAMOND doesn't mean everyone else must be like you, like the thread said biafra has never been about an individual and will never be, kanu has risen up and has been counted, all of biafra are appreciative, by the time ojukwu declared biafra over 50 years ago, kanu was a toddler, and uwazuruike too, by the time uwazuruike was moving biafra, kanu was at the background, the problem with things like you is that you are so childish and it is very difficult to use a brain if you have any

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orisa37:
SUPPORTED.

The NASS SHOULD SCRAP THE EXCLUSIVE LIST OF DECREE 24 AND LIMIT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MILITARY, ON EQUALITY OF STATES BASIS, AND TREATIES SEALING ONLY.

ANYTHING ELSE IS POSTPONING THE DOOMSDAY

Do you realistically think it will be done?

amc:


He and his group have been calling Nigeria a zoo well before the insecurity got this bad.

And the banditry and terrorism is confined to about 6 states about of the 36 states. Majority of the states are pretty safe and are far from the evil. All the other things you listed like corruption, economic downturn, human rights abuse etc also happens is the so called developed countries and nobody calls them a zoo.

Nigeria has its problems and they are many and poor leadership is mostly responsible. And it cuts across all ethnic groups. But Mazi Kanu and his IPOB group thrive on bigotry and hate towards the two other major ethnic groups. His speeches are laced with so much hate for those ethnic groups and it not surprising that majority of those groups now dislike him and his group with a passion. He has made so many enemies that he shouldn’t have made and it makes his job of forming alliances a huge task.

He could have chosen a different strategy but he knew it was a win win for him to bash Fulanis and Yorubas as a means to grow his followers, and to threaten war in order to revenge for 1967. Very bad strategy.

Since 1960, the nation had been a zoo, no be today E start. So before he called it so, it already was.
The nonsense about banditry being confined to 6 states, in a sane country, should terrorism exist at all? Over 11 thousand killed, despite the trillions budgeted for national defence. Can America or any European countries say, "only 6 states are affected by terrorism". And by the way, all states of the country are affected by one form of insecurity or the other!
In what developed country would police arrest and torture you to death for dying your hair? In what developed country would a jihadist still be a sitting minister? In what developed country would inflation reach 30%? In what developed country would social media banned just because the people are speaking against the government? Please tell me, I want to know! E be like say this current situation dey sweet you for body!
His methods might be stupid, hate driven and unnecessary, but that doesn't remove the validity of his cause!!