The wife of the leader
of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, says her
husband’s disappearance should be the major issue that will dictate discourse
as the nation goes to the poll next year.
Uchechi Kanu, speaking
in an interview published by BBC on Monday,
said the Nigerian government should account for her husband’s whereabouts,
else, people will not vote.
“In the next coming
election,” she said, “we need to have that in mind that for us to ever be
better, we need to stand up.
“Yes, Nnamdi Kanu’s
issue should be the number one thing: where is he? You need to provide him; at
least tell us where he is. You need to at least do something before you run an
election, otherwise we aren’t going to vote.”
Mr. Kanu is wanted by
the Nigerian government for alleged treason. He has not been seen in public
since September 2017 when the army raised his residence in Abia state.
The army denies
knowing his whereabouts.
Mrs. Kanu maintained
that the Nigerian Army should tell the world what happened to her husband,
saying nobody in his family knows whether he was dead or alive.
When asked how life
has been since her husband’s “disappearance”, she became emotional, describing
the experience as difficult.
“It is difficult,” she
said about raising their child without her husband, adding that the child
sometimes says things that break her heart.
“He goes sometime… he
says ‘Daddy’, and that kills me more, because I don’t know what to say to him,”
she said.
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