The five Northern state governors currently visiting their counterparts in the South East and South South have alleged that the leader of the Independent Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is being sponsored to destroy the Nigerian nation.
The Northern governors made the allegation on Tuesday during their visit to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State in Owerri, the state capital.
The leader of the Northern governors’ delegation, Kashim Shettima of Borno State, berated Kanu as a “rat and criminal” sponsored by political detractors to destroy the country.
According to Shettima, “Nnamdi Kanu is a rat and criminal, who never wants anything good in his life and is being sponsored by political detractors to destroy the country”.
He blamed the country’s problems on the elite.
The Borno State governor said he and his Northern colleagues were touring the southern parts of the country to preach peace and harmony as well as to appeal to their South-South and South East brothers to realise that without peace, progress would be difficult to achieve in the country.
Shettima charged the people of the South-South and South-East to embrace a united Nigeria and disabuse their minds about dividing the country.
He described those calling for the disunity of the country as vagabond, criminals and miscreants who did not have the progress of the country at heart.
Receiving the Northern governors’ delegation, Governor Okorocha, who is also the Chairman of the APC Governor’s Forum, assured that there’s no discrimination between all Nigerians living in Imo State.
“Nigeria is created as one united nation and rich in population in Africa through which its pride is respected. Peace is necessary in our lives for the growth of our nation and common goal. “Therefore, our responsibility as leaders is to dramatise peace in the nation. We owe the country a duty to ensure peace,” he said.
Okorocha appealed to the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo to see themselves as one another’s keepers.
Other governors, including Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto and Kebbi State’s Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, insisted that Nigeria must remain one.
