Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, has called Igbo leaders to call the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu to order.
He said the IPOB leader is crossing the red lines over his agitation for Biafra.
While insisting with all emphasis that independence is not gotten on a platter of gold told Nnamdi Kanu to dare the Nigerian military first by declaring the Republic of Biafra.
Speaking further, he said, independence must be fought for and won and went further to tell the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu to confront the Nigerian military first, “then there’s question of recognition”.
This was in reaction to the demand by the IPOB leader, for a referendum for South East before the forthcoming Anambra and 2019 elections.
Oyebode warned that Kanu was provoking the federal government and taking his luck too far.
“Nnamdi Kanu is an opportunist. People have said who put you to power? Who are you to speak for Ndigbo? I read something online where Anambra people said ‘count us out of your Biafra whatever, boycott of November 2017 Anambra governorship election’.
“What’s referendum, that Igbo should not vote? We are going to vote. You got away with sit at home protest but this time we are part of Nigeria or you want us to lose out or for soldiers to take over our state?.
“Why I said Nnamdi Kanu is being opportunistic is that the concept of self-determination is a valid concept in colonial situations when you have the metropolitan power and the people subjugated by the colonial power.
“Why I said Nnamdi Kanu is being opportunistic is that the concept of self-determination is a valid concept in colonial situations when you have the metropolitan power and the people subjugated by the colonial power.
“Self-determination is to poll inhabitants of the colonised territory whether they want independence or they don’t. After independence, it is no longer a matter of self-determination. It becomes one of the rights to development. Nigerians exercised their right of self-determination on the 1st of October, 1960.
“So that has been met and in fact, a distinguished professor of international law, my late friend Prof Orji Umezuruike, defended a PhD in Oxford on self-determination. People should read. So after independence, the only way you bring change about is not by way of referendum.
“You have to change the facts on the ground militarily. You defeat the federal government militarily. So you have a new state like that of Bangladesh in 1971, like that of Eritrea in 1979, like that of South Sudan four years ago.
“So militarily, you have to confront the federal government and defeat them and then declare your independence. Then there’s question of recognition. So that’s the only way you change the boundaries in Africa.”
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