Nnamdi Kanu has revealed that federal government offered him five south eastern states to make up the proposed Biafra state as well as an oil block with a mansion in Dubai in prison.
Nnamdi Kanu
Fresh from declaring that there will be no election in Anambra state, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Wednesday, disclosed that the Federal Government offered him Biafra Republic while in Prison with only the five South East States as the components parts but he rejected it.
Kanu who made the revelation on Wednesday, July 19, when leaders of Igbo Civil Society Coalition led by Prof. Obasi Igwe paid him a solidarity visit at his country home in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, said that he was offered Imo, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu state to form Biafra but he rejected it.
He said that that he rejected it because that did not constitute the complete Biafra, adding that he told them that he wanted a Biafra with Rivers and Benue States inclusive.
The IPOB leader also claimed that he was offered an oil block and mansion in Dubai aimed at making him to abandon the cause but that he rejected them and insisted on the actualization of Biafra.
Speaking further, he added that those things were Greek gifts to buy him over and maintained that he has no price other than to actualize the restoration of Biafra Republic and liberate the Igbos.
“They gave me Biafra in Prison with only the five Igbo states; I said no, I want Benue and Rivers”, Kanu said, pointing out that “Biafra is coming, there is nothing to stop it”.
Kanu ended his speech with knocks to Igbo elites for their anti-Biafra activities, saying that they have no interest in the Igbo masses.