{"id":169948,"date":"2025-07-17T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lawyer-critiques-link-between-nnamdi-kanu-and-propaganda"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:57:06","slug":"lawyer-critiques-link-between-nnamdi-kanu-and-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lawyer-critiques-link-between-nnamdi-kanu-and-propaganda","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Critiques Link Between Nnamdi Kanu and Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A human rights lawyer, Barrister Christopher Chidera has condemned what he described as a \u201cmalicious publication\u201d against Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n

The lawyer described the article titled \u2018How Nnamdi Kanu Sought to Please South-Easterners with Hilarious Propaganda\u2019 as malicious falsehood, noting that it showcased ignorance, deceit and a thinly veiled contempt for truth.<\/p>\n

Chidera said the article is targeted at sowing division between Nnamdi Kanu and his people to demystify him, and to paint him as a purveyor of baseless conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

Accordibg to him, the article, which he further described as a hatchet job, is part of a British-sponsored plot to undermine Kanu\u2019s growing influence on collective psyche of the Igbo and his ability to reawaken the people\u2019s mindset to the reality of the Nigerian deception.<\/p>\n

He added that Kanu was in prison \u2014 not for lies, but for speaking truth to power.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the writer and their British handlers fail to understand is that Nnamdi Kanu doesn\u2019t need propaganda to win the loyalty of his people. He has the truth. He has consistency. He has suffered more in pursuit of freedom than all these cowardly pen-wielders combined. He was abducted, tortured, renditioned, and yet he remains unbroken \u2014 while his critics remain unknown, irrelevant, and afraid.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us address the real question: If Kanu is so full of \u2018hilarious propaganda\u2019, why has the Nigerian government never charged him with the very thing they claim is false \u2014 the allegation that President Buhari died in 2017 and was replaced by an impostor? Why did Abubakar Malami, SAN, the then AGF, charge him for calling Buhari names, yet omit the most sensational claim that \u2018Buhari\u2019 was a Sudanese double?<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the Efulefu Igbos who cheer this garbage: understand that you are dancing on the graves of your ancestors. Your silence and collaboration are part of why Igbo land remains militarized, our youths massacred, and our freedom denied. Kanu is not the enemy. Your cowardice is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer also questioned the identity of the author of the article, who goes by the name, Pephel.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cLet us begin with the name \u201cPephel\u201d. For those familiar with Igbo cultural logic and naming conventions, this pseudonym is a dead giveaway \u2014 this isn\u2019t an Igbo voice. This is not someone with blood ties to the land of the rising sun. It is either an outsider desperately trying to sound native, or worse, an Efulefu \u2014 one of those tragic Igbos who abandon their heritage for crumbs at the table of their slave masters. Either way, the piece fails from the first sentence. A fraud with a fake name cannot speak on Igbo realities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica\u2019s biggest curse isn\u2019t colonialism \u2014 it\u2019s our refusal to think. We worship power, not truth. We obey, we conform, we fear, but we don\u2019t question. We reject facts if they\u2019re uncomfortable and attack messengers who speak hard truths.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil Black Africans learn to reason critically, challenge authority, and demand evidence over emotion, we will remain trapped \u2014 not by foreign hands, but by our own mental laziness. This sickness of the mind is why we are lied to, looted, and led in circles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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