Former
Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu has revealed what he discussed with the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu in Kuje prison.
Kalu
said he asked the IPOB leader to consider his method of agitation, stressing
that “good general fights and goes back to fight another day, while a worse one
is the one that dies in the battle.”
Featuring on
Channels television, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chieftain disclosed
that he spent two hours and 10 minutes with Kanu in Kuje prison.
He
also said he visited the IPOB leader then in prison because people were afraid
to identify with Kanu.
“I was
the first Nigerian man to visit him because it was the right thing to do.
Because nobody wanted to see him, everybody was afraid to see him. They were
scared to identify with him. As for me I am not afraid of death I am not afraid
of anybody.
“He
was remanded in prison by court of competent jurisdiction and a court of
record. Even the UN charter recognises that anyone remanded in prison by an
official court can be visited by anybody so I applied that wisdom to myself.
I want
to guess that part of the things you would have told Kanu while in prison was
to drop the idea of IPOB. Maybe you did not sound convincing enough.
“No! I
spent two hours 10 minutes with Nnamdi Kanu and I sounded very convincing, at
some point he was here and there and then later on he said ‘we can’t drop this
fight we have gone very far,’ and I reminded him that a good general is a
general that fights and goes back to fight another day, while a worse one is
the one that dies in the battle .
“I not
only visited him I went out of my way and to go as far as visiting his both
parents. I talked to them I gave them reasons why they should not encourage him
to continue in this manner but he (Kanu) refused.
“When
he came out of prison he didn’t make any attempt to visit those who wished him
well he went for those who wanted to play politics with him and that is where
we are. “They have been shouting Biafra nobody
touched them, but because the issue went beyond where it was supposed to be,
government had to respond.”
News-source: Dailypost.ng