The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra,
Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed regret for referring to President Muhammadu
Buhari as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile in his radio broadcasts.
Kanu, who has been charged along with
two others by the Federal Government before a Federal High Court in
Abuja on six counts of treason and other ancillary offences, said he
intended to write a private letter to Buhari to express his apology to
the President.
According to Nnamdi Kanu, “Reference to the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile is
regrettable and uncalled for and for that, I unreservedly apologise and
will be doing so in a private letter to the President.
“Before PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari)
there was the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. I also said
uncomplimentary things about him and Igbo elders as well, which I now
recognise should not have happened because it is un-African to be rude
or insolent to elders.
“All I was trying to do is to draw attention to the problems afflicting society and something done about them.”
Kanu, who described himself as a Nigerian and a British citizen, justified his agitation for a Biafra Republic.
He said IPOB’s secessionist agenda was
informed by the “incessant hardship, lack of holistic development in the
socio-economic landscape of Nigeria, lack of youth employment,
corruption in high offices and economic regression.”
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