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Leader\u00a0of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has slammed former President Goodluck Jonathan as the harbinger of Nigeria\u2019s problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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In an exclusive interview with Daily Sun, at the weekend, Kanu described Jonathan as \u201cweak and incompetent\u201d president who did nothing for the South East, even though the region claimed him as one of their own. To Kanu, Jonathan\u2019s wife, Patience, would have been a better president than her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJonathan is my uncle, yes. I was one of those who said Jonathan\u2019s tenure was more or less an Igbo presidency; it\u2019s on record I said that. But, he knew I never liked his regime because he was weak and incompetent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t support evil; if you do good, I will tell you, if you do bad, I will say it the way it is; I don\u2019t curry favours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was weak, I said I wish it was aunty Patience Jonathan who was in-charge, she would have done better.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cLook at where Jonathan dropped us today; he never finished building the East\/West Road, but, he built railway line from Abuja to Kaduna, so they will love him. Who told you that if they did not love Zik, that they will love you?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, Kanu said the North has produced good leaders, in all sectors of the economy. The Biafra leader, who said people erroneously see him as hating the North, singled out former Presidents Shehu Shagari and late Umaru Yar\u2019Adua as two good leaders who are from the North and had made their marks in Nigeria. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cPeople think I hate the North; that\u2019s not true, but the only thing is that I say things the way they are, I don\u2019t know how to tell lies to curry favours. People do not know that I love (former presidents Shagari and Yar\u2019Adua more than I love (former president, Nnamdi Azikiwe) Zik. I\u2019m saying this because when we were young and were growing up, the only notable person that built any notable infrastructure I saw with my two eyes was Shagari. The Enugu\/Igwuocha (that the white man named Port Harcourt) Expressway, was built by the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) government of Shagari and then you can travel with joy because it was smooth and very clean.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cNow, tell me who has ever done that since after Shagari, no, tell me. Which other infrastructure will you be proud of, nobody has ever done anything again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The IPOB leader described late president Yar\u2019Adua as \u201ca good and perfect gentleman. That was why you had the agitations cooled during the time of Yar\u2019Adua. The man was a gentle man; he knew how to deal with people. I never met both men one on one, but these are good people. I\u2019m not saying we don\u2019t have other good people in the North, no, we have many of them, even in the judiciary, who are nice.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the few terrible, horrible ones won\u2019t allow them to emerge, that\u2019s the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Reminiscing on the conditions an Abuja High Court put forward before granting him bail, Mazi Kanu said denying him his fundamental human rights to speak and to freely associate when he has not been convicted, speaks volumes about the hopelessness of the Nigerian judiciary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily Sun Newspapers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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