What Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Actually Said To AVID, In Simple Points
EASTERN REPORTERS EXPLAINS: What Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Actually Said To AVID, In Simple Points
If you didn't read the long address, here is everything Kanu said, broken down so you can understand it:
1. "Walls Do Not Cancel A Mandate"
Kanu said being in detention has not removed him as leader. He said solitary confinement was meant to break him, and a life sentence was meant to close his case but both failed. He is still standing.
2. He Thanked AVID For Not Betraying Him
He said when the Nigerian government infiltrated the Third Administration of the Directorate of State, many people fell silent or became confused. AVID did not. They remained loyal to his office alone. He said those betrayers have now been sacked and expelled from IPOB worldwide.
3. Special Thanks To Dr. Sylvester Onyia
He praised AVID President, Dr. Sylvester Onyia, for travelling to Abuja repeatedly while he was in solitary confinement, attending his court sittings, and walking with him to hospital. He said: "Those journeys were not tourism. They were sacrifice."
He also thanked Rising Sun and Ambassadors for Self-Determination for looking after his well-being.
4. He Said AVID Took His Case To Britain
Kanu revealed AVID wrote letters to the British Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and UK High Commission in Nigeria about his abduction from Kenya, his extraordinary rendition, and his trial as a British citizen. He said: "You did not whisper. You put the United Kingdom on the record."
He called his conviction a case built on repealed laws and a wrecked acquittal "power pretending to be a court."
5. His Demand Is Still Only One Thing: REFERENDUM
This is the core of the address. Kanu said:
- No restructuring
- No appointments
- No conferences
- No communiqués
He will only discuss REFERENDUM, or the unilateral pursuit of Biafran sovereignty. There is no middle ground.
"I will not negotiate the existence of my people. I will not bargain our homeland into a committee. I will discuss referendum and nothing else."
6. He Recounted His Arrests
He said he has been arrested for this same cause many times: 2005 at Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos, 2015 in Lagos, and kidnapped in Kenya in 2021. He said he has spent 8 years in detention chasing one goal: a peaceful homeland called Biafra. Not a slogan. A country. Not revenge. Safety.
7. Igbo Landing Not A Picnic
He tied the AVID convention theme _Maka Odi Nma Ndi Igbo_ (For the Good and Benefit of the Igbo People) — to Igbo Landing, where Igbo ancestors walked into the water rather than live as property. He said it was a verdict, not a picnic ground.
*8. His Charge To The Veterans
He charged AVID members who swore an oath to a republic founded on self-determination, to apply that same principle to Igboland.
- Keep it up
- Do not grow weary
- Fight for his release and for every Biafran unjustly locked up
- Do not outsource the struggle to the next generation
- He is not available for any bargain that leaves Biafra unnamed
He ended:
"I remain, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Unbowed. Unbought. Fixed on home."
Kanu is telling the world: I have not changed my position, I have not been broken, and I will not accept anything less than a referendum on Biafra.
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