Kanu in urgent need of heart surgery — IPOB

The leadership of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said there is an urgent need to rush its embattled leader Nnamdi Kanu to a specialist hospital where he can be given proper treatment for his deteriorating health.

Raising concern in a statement on Friday, the spokesman of the separatist movement, Emma Powerful, noted that Kanu’s deteriorating heart needs urgent medical attention.

He claimed Kanu, who was rushed to what he described as an ill-equiped DSS clinic for medical emergency in Abuja on Monday February 27, 2023, needs his personal physician to take care of him.

He said rushing him to DSS clinic is cosmetic and may cause more harm to his health.

The statement reads in parts: “The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been drawn to the continued deteriorating health of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu who was rushed to an ill-equiped DSS clinic on a medical emergency in Abuja on Monday February 27, 2023. We are aware that the Nigeria Government and her DSS, including the British High Commissioner in Abuja, planned to kill Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu in DSS solitary confinement but they should also be ready for the consequences.

“Our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is critically ill in the DSS solitary confinement and must be released unconditionally to attend to his deteriorating health urgently. The Nigeria government must do the needful now that there is time to avoid negative consequences that may follow.”