Tinubu urged to learn from Yar’ Adua, Jonahan
Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has advised President Bola Tinubu to be humane like his predecessors and release the detained separatist agitator, Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement by its vice-president, Damian Okeke-Ogene, the group said it looked forward to Kanu’s release at his next Supreme Court appearance on December 15. He advised President Tinubu to rather consider Kanu’s release as his gift to the southeast.
He said, “We don’t want to dwell much on the politics about the release of Kanu. “It is long overdue, because competent courts of jurisdiction have on two occasions found him not guilty and also released him.
“Every Igbo man is expecting that President Bola Tinubu should know that the money and lives being wasted on the issue are not worth it. And he should, therefore, set the man free as a Christmas gift to the South-East if he truly wants peace to return to the region.
“The President should emulate former Presidents Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, who used the carrot and stick approach to stop the issue of militancy in the Niger Delta region.”
“Kanu should be a free man from December 15 and anything short of that has dashed the hope of the whole of the people of South-East this Christmas. If he is not released, it will be a black Christmas in the region.
“We are not in the position to pre-empt the court but for now, we are looking up to the Supreme Court, if it is a country where the judiciary works, we don’t have to be afraid that the Federal Government would influence the judgment.”
