Buhari Departs Abuja For Japan Despite IPOB Threats

President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja today, Sunday for Yokohama to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama, August 28-30, 2019.

President Buhari’s participation will be his second, having attending TICAD6 in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016.

President Buhari was accompanied by Governors Babagana Zulum, AbdulRaham AbdulRazaq, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Borno, Kwara and Lagos States respectively; ministers and other top government officials.

The President is expected back in Nigeria on Saturday, August 31.

Newsflash247 reported that Nnamdi Kalu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, has ordered IPOB members to attack Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Japan.

Kanu said IPOB supporters in Japan had received orders from him to disgrace and arrest the president when he arrived in the Asian country on Sunday.

Kanu ordered the group to arrest the president and hand him over to the Japan authorities for his supposed human rights violation between 2015  and 2019.

He also stated that IPOB would be ready for the legal consequences of their actions.

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