Kanunta Kanu, brother of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed that Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, could play a crucial role in informing President Bola Tinubu about the true state of affairs in the Southeast.
Kanunta accused Southeast politicians of actively lobbying to ensure that President Tinubu remains unaware of the real challenges facing the region.
Henzodaily recalls that Bianca Ojukwu, had said she will do whatever it takes to ensure that President Bola Tinubu releases the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
Speaking to Daily Post, Kanunta noted that while Bianca Ojukwu’s efforts are commendable, the outcome remains uncertain.
He stated: “Yes, if she (Bianca Ojukwu) said but then it’s a hope until it happens, that’s when we will know that it’s reality; for now anybody can say that. She is pressing to make sure that as the Minister of State, Mr President should understand the situation on ground.
“Probably those advising Mr President are not doing that properly maybe because of the money they are getting. They can pay a lot of people to stop others from seeing Mr President, we know what is happening because we have our own intelligence but we are not talking about it because that’s what is happening.”
Kanunta alleged that influential figures in the Presidency are deliberately blocking access to President Tinubu to prevent him from hearing the truth.
He added: “Even those in power trying to see Mr President, it is a problem because those of them working in the office of the Presidency are stopping people who can tell the president the truth from seeing him, because Southeast politicians are lobbying them so that Mr President will not know the truth.
“At this point in time, it might be an opportunity for Bianca Ojukwu to tell Mr President, ‘this is the situation of things in the Southeast’, that those people telling him to detain Kanu are the problem of the Southeast and not Kanu as the case may be.”
Kanunta further stated that Bianca Ojukwu’s potential intervention could shed light on the issue of Kanu’s detention, emphasizing that those advocating for his continued incarceration are the real contributors to insecurity in the Southeast.