The Negative Public Perception Of The Terror Trial Of Nnamdi Kanu Is More About Decades Of Nigeria’s Deficit Of Honour In Its Dealings With The Igbo East Than The Innocence Or Guilt Of The Accused.
Tony Nnadi, LNC-NINAS, 11 June 2025
As the staggered terror trial of Nnamdi Kanu finally got underway in an Abuja Courtroom following the 2015 apprehension and the 2021 re-apprehension of the accused, there is a parallel trial in the Court of Public Opinion completely unrelated to the issues of infraction being interrogated in the Courtroom edition; and so, while Nigeria, through its Prosecution Team is juxtaposing the recorded acts of the accused with the Law prohibiting such acts in proof of their case before the Judge in the Abuja Courtroom, the Defence Team is riding in the buoyancy of waves and currents in the Court of Public Opinion generated and propelled by decades of Nigeria’s atrocious and viciously wicked dealings with the Igbo East emanating mostly from the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970 which has left Nigeria in a miserably unbridgeable deficit of honour on the subject of the Trial, AND the notorious propaganda machinery of the IPOB.
To understand the sharp disparity between the discussions happening inside the Trial Courtroom and the wider Court of Public Opinion, particularly the internet, one would need to understand the Terrorizing conditions imposed on the Igbo East by Nigeria which birthed the IPOB Terror that is now being tried by Nigeria in Abuja; a case of Terror begetting Terror.
Accordingly, while Nigeria is struggling to keep the Courtroom Trial within the confines of the infractions alleged against the accused and the Law prohibiting the offending acts of the accused (ie Terror), the Court of Public Opinion is dwelling more on the decades of Nigeria’s Terror against the Igbo East including the Genocidal War of 1967-1970 and the Post-War Punitive and Exclusionary Policies of Nigeria against the Igbo East, manifesting as Igbo Marginalization, Political and Economic.
In the Abuja Trial, just as Nigeria’s attempt to convert its decades of lies and propaganda against the Igbo East into Truth and Reality continues to fail woefully, the attempt by some of our Igbo brethren to cast the Rogue “Freedom Merchant” called Nnamdi Kanu in a role other than what he actually did in the Biafra Restoration scam, is dead on arrival and will not suddenly morph into Truth and Reality,
What we are witnessing is that Nnamdi Kanu with a horrifyingly selfish motive, and using the tools of deceit, propaganda, violence and bloodletting in the Igbo space, AND taking advantage of the trauma, ignorance and emotions of most Igbo, home and abroad with a view to profit and grandiose personal aggrandizement, managed somehow to insert himself into the Igbo situation and pain in Nigeria in a manner that FALSELY presented him as fighting the Igbo cause but which instead, TRULY left the Igbo Bleeding, home and abroad, with Igbo Reputation and Goodwill now in tatters, both in Nigeria and around the globe.
Most unfortunately and in tragic sacrilege, Nnamdi Kanu and his “Biafra Restoration” partners-in-crime, cloaked their heinous crime in the sacred name of the Biafra of 1967 which had absolutely nothing to do with the Biafra-Or-Death scam of Nnamdi Kanu and his co-proprietors of the Rogue Biafra Franchise they tagged IPOB, damaging in unimaginable ways, that name “Biafra” which represented and should have been a permanent source of pride, strength and inspiration for the Igbo East.
To worsen matters, that scam had to be backed up and enforced by fear, threats, economic sabotage by way of enforced sit-at-home, destruction of property, violence and bloodletting in the Igbo Homeland - which also turned away investors and investment.
On the other hand, what Nigeria is dealing with in the Nnamdi Kanu detention and terror trial, is a huge backlog of its decades of evil dealings with the Igbo in the affairs of Nigeria, which Nnamdi Kanu, his lawyers and supporters have latched onto, to create and sustain an impression of continuing Igbo persecution and marginalization in Nigeria which are of course realities.
Sadly, Nnamdi Kanu and his “Biafra Restoration” Bandwagon have been the worst impediments and setbacks to the Painstaking Task of Liberating the Igbo and others from the stranglehold of Unitary Nigeria which is now a Union of Death where the Sovereignty of the Ethnic Constituent Components of Nigeria is hijacked by the Instrumentality of the Caliphate-imposed 1999 Constitution, rendering the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria Impotent and Vulnerable.
Knowing what we know first-hand about the entire subject on the two sides, we state without equivocation that what the two criminal enterprises (ie Unitary Nigeria and Rogue Biafra Franchise) as represented by the Federal Government of Nigeria and Nnamdi Kanu are dealing with in the staggered Terror Trial going on in Abuja, relate more to the unspoken wrongdoing of the two than the issues they are presenting in Prosecution and Defense.
Deceived by the Propaganda and Noise of the Biafra Bandwagon which Nigeria has misread as Igbo Sentiment, it is clear to all discerning minds that Nigeria is trying to hold up the crimes of Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB/ESN/UGM gangs as the crime of the Igbo and therefore use those crimes and the Freedom of Nnamdi Kanu, as bargaining chips to knock off any claims or demands the Igbo make against Nigeria in terms of Political Dues and Entitlements.
This calculation of trying to infer that Nnamdi Kanu with his IPOB gang, and Igbo Nation are related and are one, will fail miserably as the Union Question, comprehensively and forcefully raised by the NINAS Constitutional Force Majeure, has completely overtaken those jaded and well-known schemes of Nigeria.
Nigeria will not be allowed to pretend that it did not inflict such grave Constitutional grievances against the Igbo East as could warrant the eruption of the agitations for Biafra Emancipation and Biafra Restoration neither will Nnamdi Kanu and his cotraveler-Freedom Merchants be allowed to pretend that Killing Igbo People in Igboland was a pathway to Freedom for the Igbo East. Igbo will see to these.
Let us also state categorically that no matter how the charades and shenanigans around the Terror Trial in Abuja play out, Nigeria will account for its decades of Evil Dealings with, Bloodletting and Terror against the Igbo AND Nnamdi Kanu will also be made to account to the Igbo for his Evil Dealings, Bloodletting and Terror against the Igbo.
Nigeria must now decide whether or not it wants a Federal Union of its Constituent Components as the Unitary Union imposed by the Fiat of Amalgamation in 1914 and now codified by the Unitary Constitution of 1999 is not sustainable.
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Dear Tony Nnadi I am an igbo man from Enugu I have been following your write-up and love and cherish them but I want to meet you in person. Can you make it possible for me? My name is Peter Udechukwu +2349069060818
Thank you, Tony. I hope the many Hoodwinked and deceived Igbos will come to term with your submission here and make amends as appropriate.