The Authority / Nigeria: As leaders all over the world send in their congratulatory messages to the President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday petitioned the new world’s helmsman to liberate enslaved nations in Africa from the stronghold of leaders that have no respect for human rights.
In a statement signed by his counsel, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor and made available to The AUTHORITY yesterday, Kanu, while congratulating him, compared Trump’s electoral victory with that of the 34th American president, Dwight Eisenhower, whom he said, was instrumental to the collapse of colonialism in Africa.
“It is imperative to draw historical parallels between your victory and that of the great Dwight Eisenhower a fellow Republican, who was instrumental in the dismantling of European colonialism in Africa’’.
He implored Trump to emulate the great former American president by bringing an end to neo-colonialism and enslavement currently championed by puppet dictatorial regimes that have no respect for human rights.
He said that IPOB is confident that the leader of the free world would have both the capacity and the will to confront the challenges ahead and meet the expectations of the American people in particular and the oppressed people of the world in general.
The IPOB leader also reminded the US president–elect that his victory has come with the responsibility to unite and heal the wounds of the past, including the re-writing of some aspects of the dark history of American foreign policy in Africa championed by established interests, who worked through successive US administrations to actively sponsor ‘’undemocratic regimes, corrupt dictatorships and more recently unrepentant arch-genocidists’’.
He opined that such rulers, especially in Africa, remain a direct danger to world peace and security but more importantly a potent and subsisting threat to United States interests in Africa.
He implored Trump to resist every temptation, be it financial inducement to US politicians, political blackmail or otherwise, to partner with these tyrannical regimes in black Africa that specialise in ‘crushing’ the inalienable rights of its citizens.
He warned that tyranny is bad for mankind as history have always taught that all great wars were started by tyrants.
The seventeen-paragraph statement came barely two days after Trump’s election.
