What we discussed with Nnamdi Kanu, by South East governors

The South-East governors on Wednesday met with the leader of

Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu at Government
House, Enugu, calling on him to eschew confrontation with the
federal government.
The meeting began at about 2 pm and ended by 4:30 pm.
The governors said dialogue and not confrontation was needed to
solve the problem and that IPOB’s demands must not be
‘absolute’.

Rising from the meeting, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State,
who read the communiqué after the meeting, the governor would
further engage the agitators for follow-up meetings.
“The meeting agreed that these demands by IPOB should not be
absolute, rather the South-east Governors shall immediately
engage the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and the entire
leadership of IPOB to further meetings and dialogue with a view
to quickening the resolutions of all issues amicably,” Mr Umahi
said briefly.
It was gathered that Mr Kanu arrived Enugu Government House
around 1.30 p.m. in the company of a constitutional lawyer, Ben
Nwabueze, who is also the leader of Igbo Leaders of Thought,
ILT, and Eliot Uko, deputy secretary of ILT.
The chairman of the South-east Governors Forum and Governor
of Ebonyi State, David Umahi; Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi and; Anambra Deputy Governor, Nkem Okeke, were
present at the meeting.
The Imo and Abia governors, Rochas Okorocha and Okezie
Ikpeazu, were said to have travelled outside the county.
The meeting with the IPOB leader may not be unconnected with
the recent move by the federal government to re-arrest him on
alleged violations of his bail condition.
Mr Kanu is currently on bail after being charged with alleged
treasonable offences.