President Bola Tinubu has been asked by Edwin Clark, convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), to direct Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to drop all charges against Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who is under proscription.

In an open letter to the President on Sunday, Clark made this request.

The PANDEF convener wrote to the president requesting that he utilise his executive authority to free the IPOB leader, as he had done with Abdullahi Bodejo, the president of Miyetti Allah.

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“I have never supported the activities of IPOB under Nnamdi Kanu’s leadership, but today, Nigeria is a broken country where many groups and nationalities have cried foul to the way Nigeria has been going since 1999 because of the military constitution imposed on Nigerians by the military,” the letter said in part.

“Today, we have a failing economy, a failing democracy, collapsing educational and medical institutions, jobless young, and treatment of some people as second-class citizens while a select few benefit from the so-called democracy we live in. If the violence and insecurity in the South-East are allowed to persist, it will have very negative effects on all Nigerians.

“Let me reiterate how important and urgent it is to bring the Igbo people back into the mainstream of Nigeria. In this way, their region will be treated equally with other regions in all aspects, which means they should be fully and unconditionally united or admitted into the Nigerian union as it existed prior to the civil war,” stated Clark.