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    Buhari heads to Anambra, Ebonyi as Police warn IPOB sympathisers

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorNovember 13, 2017No Comments2 Mins Read
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    President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria will meet Trump on April 30 at the White House in Washington
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    President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Anambra and Ebonyi states

    President Muhammadu Buhari will visit southeast Nigeria this week, his spokesman said on Monday, his first trip to the region since taking office in 2015.

    Calls for secession have become increasingly loud in the last few months in parts of the southeast, where the president is deeply unpopular, prompting Buhari to say he will not allow Nigeria to be divided by separatist groups.

    A million people died in a 1967-70 civil war over the short-lived Republic of Biafra.

    Buhari, a 74-year-old former military ruler who took office in May 2015, fought in the war as a young soldier on the government side.

    The spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the president would, as part of his trip, visit the campaign run by his All Progressives Congress party in the state of Anambra ahead of gubernatorial elections in the next few days.

    “Mr President will be visiting two southeast states of Ebonyi and Anambra,” said Shehu.

    He said Buhari would leave the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday morning and return the following day.

    READ: NCC chairman Senator Durojaiye visits President Buhari

    Tensions in the region rose following the release on bail of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the region’s best known secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

    The government designated the group as a terrorist organisation in September, and deployed troops to the region to crack down on secessionists.

    Kanu, who was on bail after being charged with treason, has not been seen since September 14, when IPOB says his home was raided by soldiers.

    The military has denied raiding Kanu’s home and has said it is not holding him.

    “We are yet to know our leader’s whereabouts or that of his parents.

    “(Buhari) is not the type of person any governor should be welcoming to their land,” said an IPOB spokesman in a statement that urged the president to “stay away”.

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