Kanu Withdraws His'No referendum, no election' threat.

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Just as was envisaged would finally happen, the self acclaimed supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yesterday reneged on the boycott he issued over the November, 2017 governorship poll in Anambra state.
Former Vice president, Ekwueme with Nnamdi Kanu

The withdrawal came soon after he had a meeting with a sociocultural group, the Ala-Igbo Development Foundation, in Owerri, the Imo state capital.

Kanu stated that the IPOB which he leads is a nonviolent body and assured the leaders of the sociocultural group whom he regarded as elders that he respect of the readiness of his group to let the elections hold.

 Kanu briefly said: “I came because of my respect for elders. IPOB is not a violent group. We are law abiding citizens of the society.

“What we here today will guide us in the issue of Anambra election. I will go and meet with the leadership of IPOB.”

The boycott statement by Nnamdi Kanu right from the onset was seen as an ineffective courting of attention. A threat which failure would bring him ridicule and reduce his approval because of its certainty to fail.

Neither Nnamdi Kanu nor his IPOB group could claim to have that power of scuttling a state-organised process. And that was the definition of their foolhardiness in issuing that threat.

The people that support him and have gone to chanting, in following and believing him, the 'No Referendum, No Election' thingy must be highly disappointed now.


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