Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has revealed what he would have done about the case of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, if he were in President Muhammadu Buhari’s position.
Ikpeazu said this during a recent interview with Vanguard while answering questions on the security challenges in the South-East, and also the internal crisis that has been rocking the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He said that if he were in the President’s position, he would have engaged the IPOB leader, and enlighten him on certain things, because since he is closer to the grassroots, there might be things he has knowledge about which the President might not know about. He said that engaging him does not mean that the President is trying to bring himself down, but that it is a way of trying to solve the problems, since we are in a democratic society.
He said; “I have said that if I were in the shoe of President Buhari, I would engage Nnamdi Kanu. Engaging him does not belittle our President. He is our citizen, and there may be things that Nnamdi Kanu is not seeing because he is not sitting on the presidential chair. Then, you enlighten him, there could also be things that he is hearing because he is closer to the grassroots which the President doesn’t know and he would enlighten him. This is what leadership is all about, but if you say I would not sit and listen to anything, democracy gives opportunities to be heard.”
As we already know, Nnamdi Kanu is currently on trial for charges bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism which were brought against him by the Nigerian government.
