Lai Mohammed: Treasury looters sponsoring Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB

Mohammed said the IPOB's agenda is to sabotage the Buhari administration, by pretending to be fighting for the rights of the Igbo people.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has condemned double standard lifestyle of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

He said Kanu supported Nigeria's unity under former president Goodluck Jonathan's administration but "suddenly turned into a monster" after President Muhammadu Buhari took power.

A statement issued on Sunday, September 17, by the minister's media aide, Segun Adeyemi, said "treasury looters and certain disgruntled elements" are sponsoring Kanu and his group.

Mohammed said the group's agenda is to sabotage the Buhari administration, by pretending to be fighting for the rights of the people of the south-east.

"Nigerians must understand that IPOB was not set up to fight for the right of anyone or group, but as a tool to destabilise the nation, divert attention from the efforts of the Buhari administration and obliterate the laudable achievements of the government," the minister was quoted as saying.

"IPOB is being sponsored by those I will call the coalition of the politically disgruntled and the treasury looters. They believe that by sponsoring this group to destabilise the country and trigger chaos, they will realise their ambition of escaping justice and then be free to dip their hands into the nation’s treasury again.

"If this is coincidental, then that coincidence is uncanny, at the least. Remember that Nnamdi Kanu, who led a protest at the Nigeria house in London against Boko Haram insurgency and in support of Nigeria’s unity, under the Jonathan administration, has suddenly metamorphosed into an IPOB monster who will rather set the nation ablaze."

Mohammed said IPOB planned "to trigger conflagration nationwide through attacks and reprisals."

"Thankfully, IPOB has failed in its evil machinations. The good people of Nigeria have seen beyond those cheap tactics and have avoided being incited against one another. We must remain vigilant and resolute. We must all say no to the incendiary and divisive tendencies of IPOB and its cohorts."

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The minister hailed the Defense Headquarters for declaring IPOB a terrorist organisation, and south-east governors for banning the group.

SOURCE - PULSE.NG posted by Campus94