Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged President Bola Tinubu to deploy his constitutional powers and diplomatic instruments to release the leader Of the Indigenous People of Biafra,(IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, in the spirit of equity, fairness and inclusive justice.
The national publicity secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr. Ezechi Chukwu, made the call at the weekend.
He said June 27, 2025 marked four years of Kanu’s arrest and detention in Kenya prior to his extradition to Nigeria.
The Ohanaeze spokesman added that the question of Kanu’s continued detention posed a moral burden on the integrity of the Nigerian judicial system.
“Since the Judiciary is a principal arm of the government, Kanu’s custody by extension therefore gives rise to the interrogation of the strange mannerism of the Nigerian government’s adherence to the tenets of rule of law, compliance with the prevalence of fundamental human rights, conformity to normative regulations and subscription to body of statutes, irrespective of social stratum, religion, ethnicity and other avoidable mundane prejudices and institutional biases.
“The world is watching the extent the Nigerian authorities wish to procrastinate the imperative of releasing Nnamdi Kanu. Since his process of extradition from Kenya is unlawful and the basis for his arraignment questionable, one wonders the rational for detaining Nnamdi Kanu for four years without justice.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo therefore urges President Tinubu to deploy his constitutional powers and diplomatic instruments to release him, in the spirit of equity, fairness and inclusive justice,” he said.
