The most dangerous apologists for Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are not the illiterate touts on the street. They are the educated Igbo, those who hide behind subtle innuendos, clever phrasing, and pseudo-intellectual acrobatics to excuse the killings, justify the violence, erase the victims, and shift blame away from Kanu and his band of cannibals. This group is infinitely more dangerous than Gentle the Yahoo or Ikonso.
Devoid of empathy and any recognizable form of humanity, they curate a two-part mythology of Nnamdi Kanu: the saint before the invasion of his house, and the martyr after. They attempt to rationalize the rivers of blood across Igboland by piling all responsibility on Buhari, as if Buhari instructed them to butcher their own brothers and sisters. In their twisted logic, every murder becomes a political metaphor, every burnt body becomes a statistic, and every grieving family becomes an inconvenient footnote.
They speak about Kanu’s trial and conviction with the arrogance of self-appointed legal scholars, insinuating that the court erred, that due process was denied, or that Kanu was somehow denied a fair hearing, despite the abundant opportunities he had to defend himself. These are the most dangerous set of Igbo because they lack honesty, integrity, and candor. There is no truth in them. They thrive in chaos. They feed on confusion. They relish the disintegration of Igbo society because instability gives them relevance.
These are the same people who swallowed Kanu’s Jibril al Sudani lie whole, without chewing. They nodded like programmed robots when he told the world that Buhari was dead and replaced with a Sudanese impostor. When asked how such a monumental fraud could happen in a country with millions who knew Buhari personally and thousands who would give anything to expose such a conspiracy, they said that those of us questioning the story were “otellectuals,” ignorant of how Nigeria is run.
Their mission is simple and sinister: to prey on the most gullible Igbo, those whose emotions can be hijacked with the mere mention of Biafra. They weaponize the trauma of the civil war, tap into historical wounds, and use the word “Biafra” like a charm to suspend critical thinking.
When Kanu’s Radio Biafra went silent during his trial, they seamlessly shifted their loyalty to Simon Ekpa. They justified the killings, rationalized the kidnappings, and even blamed some atrocities on Fulani herdsmen just to maintain the narrative. Today, they operate as modern-day Goebbels, propagandists who manipulate, distort, and deceive with reckless abandon.
The truth is simple. These are not defenders of the Igbo nation. They are enablers of violence, merchants of confusion, and apologists for terror. Until the Igbo confront this class of intellectual arsonists, true healing and clarity will remain elusive
Written by Mctuval Nwoko