Kanu can’t renounce Biafra, says wife

•Movement faults purported agreement on his release

Mrs Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said her husband would not give up the fight on independence of Biafra.

Okwu-Kanu, in a statement yesterday, described recent statements linking her husband to renouncement of the agitation were incorrect and insulting.

“Anybody thinking that my husband will renounce Biafra is certifiably insane,” she said, insisting that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) does not speak for her spouse.

“This type of news is distressing and laughable because no group can postulate what my husband can or cannot do or say,” she added.

Okwu-Kanu was reacting to remarks alleging negotiation between the Federal Government and MEND on possible release of the detained director of Radio Biafra.

“It is now apparent that the charges against my husband are politically motivated and not a judicial process as President Muhammadu Buhari would have the world believe.

“This singular act of tyranny and injustice against my husband among others is reprehensible to every reasonable mind, and is one of the reasons the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has consistently called for the release of my husband which President Buhari has played down,” she alleged.

Also yesterday, the group lampooned the purported agreement on release of its leader.

In a statement, the movement’s spokespersons, Emma Nmezu and Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, said: “For the avoidance of doubt, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never consented to any agreement nor did he at anytime meet with MEND. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

“It is understandable that MEND and their cohorts are scavenging for relevance from their moribund status, but they should not use the sacred name of IPOB or its leader as means of survival.”

They continued: “MEND and their team can conveniently carry out their ‘Operation Absalom (Not Moses)’ without dragging the name of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu into that shenanigans.