As 2023 Election draw nearer, An Igbo professional group, Coalition of South East Professionals Network in Nigeria and Diaspora (CSEPNND), has alleged that desperate politicians feeling threatened of the chances of Igbo to produce president in 2023 were sponsoring Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to scuttle the bid.
The group had acondemned the activities of IPOB and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, asking governors of the South East region, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and well-meaning Igbo sons and daughters to rise against the proscribed group by denouncing it wholeheartedly.
It insisted that the region must be vigilant and not succumb to Kanu’s antics of speaking or carrying out his actions for the South East interest.
The group in a statement, Friday, signed by its National President, Prof. Madumere Chika and National Secretary, Mazi Anayo Uchemba, the Coalition of South East Professionals Network in Nigeria and Diaspora alleged that a certain Nigerian politician from the South is bankrolling Kanu to scuttle Igbo’s quest for presidency in 2023.
It claimed that it has been vindicated of its earlier position that certain forces were behind the IPOB leader and his inglorious activities following current happenings around him.
“We wish to authoritatively say that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not working for the interest of Ndigbo, rather he is being bankrolled by a certain Nigerian politician who is contesting the 2023 presidential elections from the South against the Igbos,” it alleged.
“We are vindicated by the findings and happenings around Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the fugitive leader of IPOB, and we call on all Ndigbo around the World to distance themselves from this Kanu and his terrorist group,” it added. According to the Igbo group; ”This politician is doing this through some of his key aides to cause disaffection in Nigeria between the Igbos and other regions of our country.”
“The politician, having realized that the general mood in the country now is the high sympathy Nigerians have for Igbo people in 2023 general elections, decided to employ this method to set Ndigbo up against Nigeria and we must not allow this,” it further said.
