Opposition Hiding Under Free Nnamdi Kanu Protest to Seek Regime Change, Unfortunately Igbos Will Be the Scapegoats, By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones

In an attempt to further incite people to participate in the mischievous campaign against the judiciary, deceptively tagged; #FreeNnamdiKanu protest, Omoyele Sowore made a post trying to compare Nnamdi Kanu, standing trial for terrorism, to MKO Abiola who was imprisoned by the military junta of Sani Abacha for insisting on reclaiming his freely given mandate in 1993.

Sowore knows what he is doing. He, in cahoots with some selfish opposition leaders, including the subsidy and forex cabals who have not forgiven President Tinubu for the courage to withdraw subsidy on petroleum products and floating the Naira, are combining forces to topple the Tinubu administration.

They had tried many strategies in the past, with none gaining any traction. Sowore, whose many protests had recorded very scanty compliance, as he is hardly able to mobilise up to 100 people to any of his many protests, jumped at the opportunity to lead this protest, knowing how emotional Igbos could get at anything that has to do with Biafra and any charlatan, like Nnamdi Kanu, who postures as a Biafran secessionist, to launch a campaign for a possible regime change.

I have listened to people talk about this, and I know that none among the organisers and sponsors of this protest really cares about Nnamdi Kanu, rather they are looking for any opportunity to topple the Tinubu government.

Whenever you talk about Igbo marginalisation, you are sure to get a lot of attention, but rarely does anyone of those who talk about it, care about supporting any idea that will bring an end to Igbo marginalisation. At most, they exploit the unpalatable political situation or the Igbos to further exploit them for their own political and other selfish gains.

Sowore and his sponsors are enlightened enough to know that Nnamdi Kanu is not being detained illegally, and that rather than being a political prisoner as they would want us to believe, he is a suspected terrorist, who has been given ample opportunities to prove himself innocent. The Federal Government is not also to be blamed for the delay in his prosecution, rather his legal team has deliberately delayed the proceedings, believing that somehow, they might blackmail the government into abandoning the trial.

While I am confident that this protest will fail to achieve its major aim, which is to topple the Tinubu administration, I am disturbed the Igbos are not doing enough to resist the bait by these desperate politicians and corrupt cabals of subsidy and forex criminals, whom Tinubu has largely stopped from ripping Nigerians off.

Let it be on record that Ndigbo are not driving this campaign for regime change deceptively made to look like a free Nnamdi Kanu protest. We are democrats and we shall wait for the 2027 elections to exercise our right through the ballots. This is a Sowore/Atiku scheme and Ndigbo are not part of it.

Onwuasoanya FCC Jones, PhD, is the immediate past Deputy Leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide – Youth Wing.