Okezie Ikpeazu, Governor of Abia State, has said he was not aware that officers of the Nigerian military will invade the residence of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in 2017.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Ikpeazu said this when he featured in an exclusive interview: “Nigeria now with Dickson Iroegbu” in Abuja.
This newspaper recalls that Kanu had fled Nigeria in 2017 after he claimed he wanted to be assasinated by Nigerian forces.
At the time, he was on bail, following his arrest in 2015.
“I was not told that anything like that (invasion) was going to happen. I only saw the GOC who was at Enugu that time, he showed up in my office and told me that he will arrest Nnamdi Kanu.
“I asked him why? He said he had orders to arrest him. I told him to give me few hours and he obliged. I called the traditional rulers and asked them to talk to Nnamdi’s father who was a traditional ruler to persuade Nnamdi to come and have a word with the GOC, but Nnamdi Kanu refused, saying he was under seige already in his house. I didn’t know that the soldiers were already everywhere,” Ikpeazu said.
Kanu is presently facing trial after his rearrest in June 2021. He has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since last year.
