Lawyer to the detained the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Vincent Obetta says he is not aware that his client at any time tendered any apology to President Muhammadu Buhari or any other persons.
Obetta says media reports which suggests that Nnamdi Kanu who is also the founder Radio Diaspora of pirate radio which propagates the cession bid of Biafara is nothing but mere tactics to “puncture” the Biaffra campaigner’s defence.
“It is not true,” he said. “The government is using every instrument to puncture what we are doing,” Obetta said.
A statement purpotedly written by Kanu while in the Department of State Services (DSS) says, “reference to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a terrorist, evil and a paedophile is regrettable and uncalled for and for that, I unreservedly apologise and will be doing so in a private letter to the President.
“Before PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) there was the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. I also said uncomplimentary things about him and Igbo elders as well, which I now recognise should not have happened because it is un-African to be rude or insolent to elders.
“All I was trying to do is to draw attention to the problems afflicting society and something done about them,” Kanu wrote in the statement.
Nnamdi has been in DSS custody since October, 2015 and is presently facing five-count charge of treasonable felony.