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In a statement issued by the group's Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB accused Buhari and some leaders in the South East geopolitical zone of conspiracy of silence on the issue. The group insisted that Nnamdi Kanu was abducted on 14th September by the Nigerian government and her security operatives during the invasion of his compound in Afaraukwu, Abia State. The statement read, "We are asking Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Nnia Nwodo and South East governors to produce Nnamdi Kanu because they or their representatives all participated in countless meetings in Abuja and Enugu where modus operandi of the genocidal Operation Python Dance II was agreed and ratified. "It was as a direct result  of military invasion of the home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and massacre of 28 innocent unarmed civilians with many missing that has led us to once again politely ask that our leader be presented to us dead or alive.  "It is becoming clear to eve...

The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, said on Monday that her husband’s ill health caused instability in Nigeria. She expressed the view at the stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, New Born, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH and N) in Abuja. The event was also used to inaugurate the Governors Wives Advocacy Group (GWAG) on reproductive health in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari was in London for treatment of an undisclosed illness and spent over 100 days there. He returned to Nigeria on August 19 and has since resumed his full duties which he delegated to the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, while he was away. As you are aware for the past six months Nigeria was not stable because of my husband’s ill health,” Mrs. Buhari said. “We thank God that he has fully recovered now. Mrs. Buhari also lamented the actions of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, saying he tried to create “a state out of a state.” Although ...