Doyin Okupe,
a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has said watching members of
the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), waving the Biafran flags while
welcoming Nnamdi Kanu, made him shed tears.
He said that
the way the IPOB members, particularly youths, waved their flags in Nnamdi
Kanu’s compound, shows a people that have been traumatized, in a position of
hopelessness.
According to the herald, Okupe was
speaking in reaction to the video of IPOB members who visited Nnamdi Kanu in
his residence.
“This
morning,” he said, “I could not withhold the tears from my eyes when I saw the
video of thousands of ibos, mostly youths, waving Biafran Flags and chanting in
Nnamdi Kanu’s compound ‘all we are saying is give us Biafra.’
“I cried
because I empathised with them and I wondered how we managed to push a people
to such a position of hopelessness and despair. I also fearfully wondered if by
any act of commission or omission I have played any role in this ignoble act
(s).”
The Igbos,
under the umbrella of IPOB as well as other groups, have been agitating for the
creation of an independent state of Biafra, citing marginalization.
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