The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has urged Igbo youths across the world to stand in solidarity with leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu as he stands trial at Federal High Court, Abuja on July 26.

 

The re-trial of Kanu is kicking off in Justice Binta Nyako’s court after he was reportedly rearrested in Kenya and repatriated to Nigeria.

 

The National President of the Council, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka made the call on Sunday, July 25 in Lagos.

 

He noted that the global democratic and human rights of freedom of association and speech cannot be allowed to be swept under the carpet by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

Igboayaka charged the youths to stand with one of their own in all ramifications, stressing that no government or individual could cow Ndigbo in their quest for self-determination.

 

He said, “All the traders in Abuja should close their shops and markets in the spirit of “Umunna Bu Ike and Obinwanne” to demonstrate rejection of sectional trial against Nnamdi Kanu and tribal hatred against Ndigbo by President Buhari administration”

 

“Buhari’s government should learn from history that Ndigbo as major stakeholders in Nigeria can’t be intimidated with barrel of guns, but should realize that Ndigbo have suffered untold marginalization and injustice to keep Nigeria one, and none of these gestures was appreciated since the end of the calculated genocide against Ndigbo from 1966 to 1970”

 

“By prosecution, intimidation and killing of members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and other Pro-Biafran groups, Gen. Buhari and FG are walking on a tiny thread rope with sharp razor, therefore any slight mistake from this moment of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial might see the abrupt end of Nigeria in an ugly history”

 

“It’s obvious that those calling for Nigerian unity have destroyed every element of unity in Nigeria and the most recent one that broke the camel’s back is the recent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari where he demonstrates the drama in a novel titled “Animal Farm” by George Orwell which stated that “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.