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Raskimonojendor:
I see Nnamdi Kanu becoming an APC member if this happens. Lol

Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) would have regained his freedom but for Imo State politics and the forthcoming governorship election in the state, SaharaReporters can exclusively report.

Kanu, the leader of the separatist group was on June 19, 2021, abducted from Nairobi airport in Kenya and then detained and tortured for about 10 days in Kenya.


Under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, Kanu was subsequently flown by private plane from Kenya to Nigeria later in June 2021.

Since Kanu was brought to Nigeria to face trial for terrorism charges, he has been detained in solitary confinement at the headquarters of the Department of State Services, Nigeria’s secret police, in the capital city, Abuja.

Mr Kanu, a British citizen, has requested consular assistance from the British government, but the appeals failed.

However, sources in the Presidency told SaharaReporters on Friday that President Bola Tinubu would have ordered the release of Kanu but he was advised against doing so at this time by some politicians close to him.


SaharaReporters learnt that Tinubu was advised to hold on till after Imo State governorship election scheduled for November 11, 2023, as Kanu’s release before then could have political implications in the Southeast region.

“The release of Nnamdi Kanu was stalled by the Southeast politics of Imo. They claimed to Tinubu that his release might affect the election in Imo so the President waited,” one of the sources told SaharaReporters.

On Sunday, another separatist leader Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, who was in Cotonou, Republic of Benin capital, said that he was now legally free to return to Nigeria, after two years.

Igboho, who has since left the Republic of Benin to see his family in Germany, disclosed that he was now free to return to Nigeria and visit any country in the world.

The Yoruba Nation agitator said he had “fulfilled all the legal conditions attached to my bail few years back and I am coming home to Nigeria, my country of origin, any moment from now”.

Igboho was arrested on July 20, 2021, at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, while trying to travel to Germany three weeks after he was declared wanted by Nigeria secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS).


Nigerian government made efforts to have Igboho expedited to Nigeria from the Republic of Benin like it was done in Kanu’s case but failed.

He was later granted bail by a Benin Republic court and was allowed to remain in Cotonou.

Igboho commended some prominent Yoruba indigenes, politicians, the media, academia and monarchs for the support he enjoyed in Cotonou.

SaharaReporters had reported that the Court of Appeal in October 2022 discharged Kanu of the counts filed against him. The appellate court subsequently barred any further arrest, detention and trial of Kanu by the agents of the government.

The Nigerian government later appealed against the judgement at the Supreme Court and subsequently got another panel of the Court of Appeal to stay the judgement of the appellate court.

Despite the judgements in favour of Kanu, he has remained in solitary confinement at the facility of the DSS.

On Tuesday, Kanu, through one of his lawyers, Aloy Ejimakor, said the Court of Appeal should not consider adjourning the hearing on IPOB’s appeal challenging its proscription as a terrorist organisation by the Nigerian government.


The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal in March fixed October 16 to hear the appeal filed by IPOB to challenge its proscription as a terrorist organisation.

The Nigerian government under former President Muhammadu Buhari proscribed IPOB over its alleged killings and other atrocities in its agitation for the actualisation of the Biafra Nation.

On January 18, 2018, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja held that the proscription of IPOB by former President Buhari's government was in order.

Justice Abdul Abdu-Kafarati of the Federal High Court proscribed IPOB based on the ex parte motion filed by the then Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on behalf of the Nigerian government, specifically declaring as illegal, all IPOB’s activities, particularly in the Southeast and South-South regions of Nigeria.

But the group approached the Court of Appeal insisting that the trial court erred in law. It pleaded with the court to set aside the order of the lower court and the motion ex parte.

IPOB in its five grounds of appeal contended that Justice Abdu-Kafarati erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice, when he ruled that the mandatory statutory condition requiring Buhari’s approval, under Section 2 (1) (C) of the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act, 2013, was satisfied, on the authority of a Memo the AGF issued on September 15, 2017.

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PrinceOfLagos:
Dear friends, If Tinubu becomes the flag bearer of APC for 2023 , I will deactivate and retire permanently from Nairaland and all other social media sites

I assure you guys that Tinubu will not be APC presidential flag bearer for 2023 presidential ambition ..

I won't go into much details but, you all should be rest assured that rejected man won't be president ..

Odibembem:
Buhari is more intelligent than Obi, he scored C5 in English. No way Obi can enter university with such result. Am sure there was some fraud some where that needs to be investigated. He may had done his clearance in the school with another result. UNN need to bring out Peter Obi's file, we want to check something

AllDModsAreMaad:
Stop posting fake information on nairaland. You're making the forum lose its reputation.

Ele ri bu, you think people don't know you're the one.

If dem born you well, no dey block people for Twitter, make dem fin ish you.

Mbanda:
Nigeria and propaganda is just like prick and toto that cannot leave each other.

The fact remains that, part of the money Ojukwu used in fighting or funding that war is his father's money. So, which money is gowon talking about?

Jeyun:
Reno u are a fool, measure your age and all the trash u have being saying against ibos and u will understand that u sad more like a pre epoc man. How many Yoruba and awusa community do we have in the east? They are free to pick up forms and context election there. Ibos are sojourners and they are much in Lagos and Kano. If u have the population u can pick a form and contests. Amowodofin in Lagos and sabogiri in kano are majorly ibos dominated areas

accordadoga26:
Hehehe

Nnamdi Kanu will die in detention.

The fourth-class citizens can do their worst

Awon akotileta Omo irankiran Omo ale

NewDea4:
People should learn to stop engaging this hungry clown Omokri

killsmith:
The idiot creating and responding to fake monikers.

Dear @okechukwuchima12,

Thank you for your feedback. It is this behaviour of insulting and offending others unnecessarily that resulted in the pogroms and the subsequent Nigerian Civil War that killed millions of our people. Sadly, what some of us prove is that we learn nothing from history.

Learn to stop expressing yourselves via insults and abuse. Look at Peter Obi. The reason I swore that I am ready to sell everything I own to work against Obi rather than for him to emerge as Nigeria's President is not really because of Peter. It is because of his followers. I am convinced that, unless there is a cultural shift in a part of Nigeria, there might be another civil war in the future if they pursue their quest for power as militantly as they did in 2023.

Since you were born up until now, have you ever heard that Yorubas were attacked or killed by their host communities? Ask yourself why it never happens to them. It is because they have very high emotional intelligence built into their culture. They can disagree with you without being disagreeable.

Diplomacy is not sycophancy, and humility is not stupidity. We will continue to pray for you that God, in His infinite Wisdom, will open your eyes to see the value of wisdom over money and enable you to make adjustments to your culture, which will help you achieve your aims within Nigeria and abroad. In Yeshua's Name.

Thanks again, and may God bless you.