As the clamour for the unconditional release of leader of the proscribed separated Indegenous People’s of Biafra (IPOB), gathers momentum, a South East political pressure group, the Igbo Union, has called on President Bola Tinubu to release the detained leader to earn his support from the zone ,
The IPOB leader, who was re arrested and extradited from Kenya has been incarcerated and held in the Department of State Security (DSS) custody for over three years
President of Igbo Union, Prince Elias Odoemena, who made the plea to president Bola Tonubu in a statement on Tuesday said the release of Kanu would change the narratives for the Predident as Nigerians, especially the South east would see him as a President that listens to the cry of people and one who obeys court order.
According to him, “It’s sad, disheartening that Nnamdi Kanu will be in detention even when the court of competent jurisdiction has granted him bail long time ago.
“The only offence committed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was his continued cry against the marginalization of his tribe, the Igbo race by the past Nigerian governments.
“It will be wrong to beat a child and ask him not to cry. It’s unfortunate that instead of doing the needful and reducing the rate of hatred on the Igbo, the the immediate past government thought that suppressing Nnamdi Kanu’s cry will make him stop the cry.
“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu will portray the Nigerian government before the international community as a country that has little or no regard for Court Orders and does not respect human right and this is not giving Nigerians good name a country abroad.”
Prince Odoemena thanked an elder statesman Pa Edwin Clark and many others that have added their voices for the release of Nnamdi Kalu.
Odoemena also told President Tinubu that Nnamdi Kanu is a son to the president who may be useful to his administration in future.