{"id":22474,"date":"2019-06-25T21:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22474"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:26:44","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-insists-biafra-must-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22474","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu Insists Biafra Must Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18957&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says that the dissolution of Nigeria is inevitable, adding that the country will cease to exist.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This he said yesterday in Houston, Texas, United States, while addressing elders and supporters of Biafra, as part of their sensitization tours around the world.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The IPOB leader said that as long as the people of the Old Eastern Region of Nigeria remain standing, their struggle would be fruitful and the sovereignty of Biafra would be achieved.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAs long as we stand, our fight is two-fold. Biafra will come and the name \u2018Nigeria\u2019 will cease to exist forever and ever,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kanu also urged Igbos and others from the old Eastern Region of Nigeria in the Diaspora to double their efforts in the struggle to actualize the sovereign state of Biafra.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAll of you that did those wonderful works in years back, I call upon you now to redouble your efforts and do the same thing you did before but only now slightly differently; where before you have Nigeria, remove it and put Biafra\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe only people who are against Biafra are either saboteur, their fathers were saboteurs during the wars. Anybody that hates Biafra is not of pure Biafra blood. That is why we are relying and counting on you,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18957&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says that the dissolution of Nigeria is inevitable, adding that the country will cease to exist. This he said yesterday in Houston, Texas, United States, while addressing elders and supporters of Biafra, as part of their sensitization tours around the world. 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