The national president of Association of Igbo Town Unions (ASITU), Chief Emeka Diwe, has urged President Bola Tinubu to release the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by invoking the prerogative of mercy as enshrined in the constitution.
Kanu’s case is expected to top discussion at the upcoming meeting between South East governors and other Igbo stakeholders and the presidency.
Leaders of the region had at a meeting in Abuja on July 10, resolved that a high-powered Igbo delegation would meet the presidency to discuss the immediate and remote causes as well as the viable solutions to the insecurity in the South East.
Chief Diwe stressed that Kanu’s release was long overdue and should be based purely on political exigency.
He noted that the federal government had appealed the judgement freeing Kanu and urged the government to display magnanimity by releasing him on the ground of mercy in order to restore peace and tranquility in the South east.
The ASITU leader said Tinubu would only be showing that he is a democrat if he releases Kanu and urge him “to go and sin no more”.
The South East Governors’ Forum (SEGF) had in Enugu unanimously absolved the IPOB leader of being responsible for the insecurity in the region.
