#EndSARS: My boys are behind mayhem, says Nnamdi Kanu……………………………. You’re on your own – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

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Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and Ohanaeze Ndigbo have sharply disagreed over the motive behind the mindless killing of people and wanton destruction of major property in Lagos and other parts of the country this week.

While Kanu claimed responsibility for the mayhem that followed the #EndSARS protests in Lagos, Ohanaeze Ndigbo distanced its members from him and asked Kanu to count them out of his trouble.

In a monitored phone-in programme on Radio Biafra, Kanu said, “I gave instructions that my members that they must target Tinubu and his investments. Now, his hotel is in flames.”

The Biafra leader vowed to relentlessly pursue Tinubu to anywhere he might be in Europe.

“We will track him down and make him see the anger of IPOB, the largest mass movement in the world. Just track him for me,” he said

Kanu revealed that he asked his members to infiltrate the #EndSARS protesters and team up with the protesters, “so we can make the country ungovernable. Our aim is very clear.”

“This will continue until we achieve our purpose of breaking the country or until people in the zoo realise that they have to let Biafra be,” he vowed.

But in a reaction, Ohanaeze Ndigbo condemned Kanu over his comments on destruction of Yoruba assets, stressing that Ndigbo did not and would never share such view.

President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, who gave the position of the group in a statement, said, “The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural and Political body of Ndigbo Worldwide, has been drawn to a press statement issued by a Pan-Yoruba Group, the Apapo O’Odua Koya (AOKOYA), on the ongoing youth uprising in Nigeria particularly in Lagos as it relates to Ndigbo youths.

“We find the statement disheartening not necessarily because of the untruth in its sentiment but that it’s obviously being engineered and targeted at the age-long good relationship between the Igbo and the Yoruba. “Ohanaeze strongly believes that the press statement is craftily drafted showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve a set goal which in this case is to set Yoruba against Ndigbo. We are ready to vehemently resist this in our time knowing the historical affinity of these two great ethnic groups dating back to the days of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe through to the famous handshake across the Niger propagated by our iconic leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.”

The statement also said, “Ohanaeze will therefore wish to urge the Yoruba and indeed the rest of Nigeria to disregard any outburst from anybody as coming from Ndigbo that is not as succinctly captured in the terms of agreement of the ethnic nationalities.

“It’s therefore against this backdrop that Ohanaeze Ndigbo wishes to vehemently deny the allegation of Igbo youth involvement in Lagos #Endsars protest as part of a grand design to destroy Yoruba economy.

“For the obvious reason of having most of their businesses scattered all over the country particularly in Lagos, knocks out the thinking of an Igbo setting to destroy another person’s economy. Only a fool living in a glass house uses stone to settle scores. Already, as it had always been during every crisis in Nigeria, Igbo businesses are a target as happened last Tuesday in Abuja when car depots, belonging to Igbos were set ablaze by hoodlums.

“Ohanaeze believes and empirically too that Ndigbo youths underlying reasons for getting involved in the on-going #Endsars protests is not anything different from the reasons of other youths in Nigeria which borders on aggravated neglect of Nigerian youths due to poor governance rooted in the dubious political structure.

“We, therefore, wish to urge the Yoruba ethnic group to disregard the position being pushed by the AOKOYA because it’s not based on facts and reality on the ground. Finally, we wish to state that Ohanaeze is also outraged by the vituperative and inciting outrage of the leader of IPOB on the #ENDSARS activities in Lagos and disassociate the body and Ndigbo completely from them.”