By Chinwe Nwacha, Onitsha
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tuesday blasted Igbo governors, traditional rulers and politicians, describing them as cowards and pretenders over alleged betrayal of Nnamdi Kanu in the name of fighting for his release.
In a press release made available to newsmen through the IPOB image maker, Emma Powerful, it condemned in the strongest terms, the alleged cowardly silence and shameful betrayal of Igbo governors, traditional rulers and so-called political leaders who it said have continued to mortgage the dignity of kanu for crumbs from their masters in Abuja.
It lamented, "While Northern politicians routinely shield and rescue terrorists, bandits, and mass murderers from the clutches of justice, and Yoruba leaders stood firmly to rescue their sons, Sunday Igboho and Omoyele Sowore, from tyranny, the so-called governors of Igboland and traditional rulers have become cheerleaders of oppression.
" Instead of insisting on the unconditional release of Onyendu, who has committed no crime known to law and who was already discharged and acquitted, they busy themselves with begging like slaves before their masters.
"History is repeating itself. Just as some weak and corrupt men among our ancestors collaborated with foreign slave traders and sold their brothers and sisters into slavery, so too do these governors today conspire against their own son, the one man who has given voice, dignity, and courage to the Igbo race.
"They envy Onyendu’s unmatched popularity among our people, forgetting that their betrayal will never erase the truth, that he stands as the embodiment of the Igbo spirit, unbendable and unbroken.
"We remind our people of the legendary Eboe Landing of 1803, when Igbo men and women, captured and brought to Georgia, chose to walk into the waters together and die rather than live as slaves.
"That act of defiance has resonated for centuries as a testament to the Igbo spirit of honour above servitude. Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is cut from that same immortal cloth. If he had lived in that time, he would have walked into the ocean with his brothers and sisters rather than bow to chains oppression.
"Even today, in the face of torture and illegal detention, he has remained resolute, better death on his feet than life on his knees.
"Yet the men who occupy Government Houses in Igboland today have chosen dishonour. They crawl on their bellies before Abuja, trading away our dignity for political survival and second term in office. They are mocked behind their backs by Fulani and Yoruba politicians who marvel at the weakness and jealousy that blind them. Instead of protecting the collective interest of their people, they actively participate in the humiliation of the Igbo nation.
"No amount of betrayal will erase the truth. Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has already been discharged and acquitted by a competent court of jurisdictional nullity, a discharge that no Supreme Court, no tribunal, and no dictator can overturn. His continued detention is not just illegal, it is an abomination before man and God.
"The Igbo spirit will outlive these betrayers, just as the memory of Eboe Landing outlives the slave traders. The people know who stood firm and who sold their own. History will record that the governors of Igboland chose to side with oppressors against their own flesh and blood.
"As Onyendu himself always reminded us: “In the end, we always win," the movement stated
