The demand for Kanu’s release is a cause that Governor Soludo claimed he supports.
Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, has said that if President Muhammadu Buhari does not accept his request for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, he would turn his focus to the new Bola Tinubu administration.
Kanu has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since his detention in July 2021, and Soludo has frequently pleaded with President Buhari to free him. His most recent request was made in a letter to the President dated April 20, 2023.
On Friday, Governor Soludo remarked on Channels Television’s Politics Today that he believes in the cause of Kanu’s release and that the President-elect received a copy of his most recent letter.
“This is an issue that one supports. I have always fought for the rule of law and equal justice for everyone, so if you look at that letter, it is copied to President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and I like to think that a copy has also been handed to his office, if you know what I mean.
We will pursue the same course of action with the incoming administration, Soludo said. “The Attorney General is also copied in this letter, and if President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration fails to take advantage of this opportunity to really rise above everything else and be a statesman as it were, if the president fails to take advantage of that,” Soludo said.
When asked why he wanted Kanu released, the governor said that it was for the region’s long-term development and for lasting peace and security.
He also bemoaned the South-East’s weekly sit-at-home day, which he said Kanu’s followers started as a method to demand his release.
The governor claims that the zone has suffered tremendous economic losses as a result of the ongoing stay-at-home culture.
The IPOB leader has to emerge from prison and “separate the substance from the chaff,” he said, lamenting the fact that every criminal organization in the bush now claims to be either freedom fighters or Nnamdi Kanu’s sympathizers.
If Kanu is exposed, according to Soludo, he will be able to identify his true followers, control them, and isolate the criminals.
