Omoyele Sowore, a former presidential candidate has alleged that the continued detention of Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu is linked to his refusal to accept certain conditions he claims were accepted by Yoruba activist Sunday Igboho.
Sowore made this known during an interview with journalists in Abuja, while comparing the political approaches of the two separatist figures and their relationship with President Bola Tinubu’s government.
Sowore said his recent interaction with Kanu reinforced his belief that the two men could not be compared, stressing that if the IPOB leader had accepted the same terms offered to Igboho, he would be campaigning for Tinubu in the Southeast.
He said, “Nnamdi Kanu is in jail today because he’s different from Sunday Igboho. If Kanu were like Sunday Igboho, he would be campaigning for President Tinubu in the Southeast now.
“Because it’s the same terms they gave to Igboho that he accepted and Kanu rejected over the last 10 years.
“I don’t know what he will do tomorrow, but the Kanu I went to campaign for in Aba last week it will be heresy to compare the two of them.”
While criticising the trend of transactional politics in the country, Sowore warned that Igboho could end up politically disgraced, drawing parallels with controversial political figures of the past, such as Nzeribe and Daniel Kanu.
He added that Sunday risks damaging his legacy if he continues on the same path.
He said, “As per Igboho, who I don’t know too well, I have always stated that their own brand of politics is what I call Amala politics in Oyo State; it’s politics of ‘chop I chop.
“But what Igboho is going to realize is that he’s going to be in the hall of infamy like the Nzeribes of this world, who once said if Babangida does not become president he would kill himself; both him and IBB have become invalid.
“It’s like Daniel Kanu, who said if Abacha does not become president he would kill himself. Abacha has died and his own political career died forever.
“If he was ever relevant, Igboho just retired himself into the infamy of the people I mentioned, and his own might be worse because the world community might be coming for him very soon.”
