I don’t know Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts – Gov. Ikpeazu

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ABUJA-Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has said that he does not know the whereabouts of the “missing” leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. Ikpeazu The governor said he has never had any kind of affinity, whatsoever with Kanu and as such wouldn’t provide answers to the IPOB’s leader’s itinerary.

It will be recalled that Kanu’s whereabouts had been unknown for weeks after soldiers invaded his hometown in Umuahia, the State capital. Kanu, who is incidentally standing trial at a Federal High Court in Abuja is due to appear in court for a resumed hearing of his treason charges preferred against him by the Federal government. Asked during an interview in Abuja on Thursday of Kanu’s movement, Governor Ikpeazu said that it would be unfair for anyone to pose such a question to him. He said: “I don’t think that is a fair question. I don’t have the capacity to determine where Kanu is.

I have never visited him. I have never called him on phone and he has never taken me into confidence as to what he does, where he goes. “So, those who are close to him would answer. I don’t have the capacity to monitor him and know where he is, maybe Journalists through investigative journalism will know.” The governor however gave an explicit, possible reason of what led to the recent restiveness in the State.

He said that in the light of the oath he swore as governor, he was left with no other choice than to take some drastic measures to save the lives and property of the people living and doing business in Abia. Reacting to the agitation about secession, Ikpeazu said that the people of south east had more faith in the Nigerian project than any other geopolitical zone of the country.