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Nnamdi Kanu's Detention: Nigeria Has An Igbo Problem, Says Sowore

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general election, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the continuous detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is a confirmation that the Nigerian State has an Igbo problem.

Sowore, who said this during an interview with Rudolf Okonkwo in 90Minutes Africa on Sunday, added that the pro-Biafra agitator is a victim of the post-civil war treatment that the country has meted out to the Igbo.

"Nigeria has an Igbo problem. It's like when a father is dying, they will tell their children, I have a problem with Igbo people; please continue from there," the political activist stated.

Kanu escaped from Nigeria in 2017 while on bail, standing trial on charges of terrorism in a Federal High Court after an invasion of his residence by the Nigerian military.

On June 27, 2021, he was arrested in Kenya by Interpol, working with Nigerian security officials, and brought to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition.

On October 22, 2022, the Court of Appeal in Abuja declared the extradition of the IPOB leader illegal and ordered his immediate release.

The Nigerian government, however, continued to hold him in detention and filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the Appellate Court order.

The Supreme Court, in its ruling, acknowledged the illegality of Kanu's extradition but insisted that it was not enough to set him free and ordered that the terrorism of Biafra agitator should continue.

Kanu has since remained in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) while facing seven counts bordering on terrorism at the Federal High Court.

Sowore, who himself has been in and out of the detention facilities of the DSS, said he didn't expect that the Bola Tinubu administration would follow the path of the Buhari administration in holding Nnamdi Kanu prisoner.

"I expected that the first act of Tinubu in office would have been to release Nnamdi Kanu. But the fact that it got worse shows that there is a kind of conspiracy going on," the former University of Lagos students' union president indicated.

"I also know that there are some Igbo elite who are complicit in his detention because there was a time when there were discussions about his release, and they said it should hold on until after the election, Sowore added.

"And now, after the election, the devil seems to have intervened more strongly."

The political activist expressed his lack of faith in the possibility of Kanu getting any justice from the Nigerian judicial system because the president influences the system.

"Kanu is the official prisoner of whoever is the president of Nigeria. They report his condition to the president daily," he explained.

"There is no way he's going to get justice from the courts unless the Nigerian State decides to let him go."

Ojiofor:
Nigeria government likes the destruction by IPOB going on in Southeast and want it to continue that is the reason why they are reluctant in finding lasting solution to the problem.

Okoroawusa:
Nnamdi Kanu will die the way my two brothers died. The way we couldn't find their bodies if the way Nnamdi Kanu s body will never be found. The way we buried only their heads is the way on Nnamdi Kanu's head will be buried without a body. The way their children are now fatherless is the way Nnamdi Kanu's children will be fatherless. The way their wives are now widows is the way Nnamdi Kanu's wife will be a widow.

Chukwu Okike Abiama bear me witness....Iseeeee!

ajailer:
I tot Sowore was a fresh breath but it's now obvious that he is after all still a politician with a deceptive mindset and he thinks the SE is a potential marketable vote for his ambitions. What about the victims of I.pobs, the civilians who have been killed for defying sit-at-home order, the force men and women killed, the destroyed property during endsars protest? Are we to pretend those never happened?

After he collects grants from the west to destabilize his country, he go come dey form activist. Oga go find one place rest, Kanu shouldn't be freed now.

Okoroawusa:
Onye kpara nku ahuhu siri ngwere biara ya ugwo.

Ojiofor:
Would say same thing for people of North-East?
I know you won't.

OLAADEGBU:
The Nigerian Government, however, continued to hold him in detention and filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against the Appellate Court order.

Sultanofpiglets:
We don't need your foolish pacification.

A time has come for action against you cunts that feel inserting yourself in our lands gives you cover.

It will be activated soonest...

Nonsense

gidgiddy:
Please, Kanu was not arrested by Interpol in Kenya. He was kidnapped from Kenya and brought back to Nigeria with the collusion of the Kenyan and Nigerian government

Ojiofor:
Igboland no be ur pahpah property so STFU.
You miscreants will be defeated it is only but a matter of time.
Idi.ots that are doing everything to turn Igboland into another Hiati.

EmperorCaesar:


Useless opinion of a woeful failure

Treason is a highly punishable offence and in a more advanced country like China where the Most Excellent XI Jinping reigns supreme, he'd have been put in a cage and submerged into the middle of India Ocean


Unionism or Activism isnt anything close to this. He's a terrorist and he should be treated like one and No, it has nothing to do with Igbos

He called for the killings of military men and top Govt officials, all those have nothing to do with fighting for your tribe

Sultanofpiglets:
You dey make noise...

We need to cut the head of the serpent

Those making you believe, that you can penetrate need to be expunged

It's now obvious...

Sultanofpiglets:
It was the UK Government that actually told the Kenya Government that he was on his way to Kenya. The Kenya Government and NIGERIA Government did the rest.

The UK didn't want the backlash of arresting him in the UK, because it will awaken internal problems concerning their citizens calling for BIAFRA and an end to BRITISH colonial interest in the modern era.

We need a BIAFRA Mossad type group..