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b]The Igwe of Ezema Olo in Ezeagu LGA, Enugu State, His Royal Highness, Ambassador Dr Lawerence Agubuzu has asked President Bola Tinubu to released Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and return him to Kenya or the United Kingdom if they are not comfortable with his presence in Nigeria.[/b]


Kanu was arrested in Kenya during the administration of late Muhammadu Buhari and returned to Nigeria to face trial for terrorism charges.

The IPOB leader was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal High Court last year and is now cooling his feet at the maximum security prison in Sokoto.

Many prominent Igbo leaders have been pleading with Tinubu to free the agitator.

The monarch warned that keeping the pro-Biafra leader in jail was causing young people in the Southeast to become more upset and restless.

Agubuzu spoke up during the 2026 National Traditional and Religious Leaders Summit on Health, which took place at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja.

He said, “Having come now to Abuja and listened to His Royal Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, who was gingering all of us to work as a family, to work as a team, to see Nigeria as one, I said maybe this is good.

“But when you look at it, this same Ooni of Ife is planning to confer a very high honour on Sunday Igboho who, in my own part of the country, we see him as the South west counterpart of Nnamdi Kanu and the Imperial Highness does not seem to understand the pain in my heart when Nnamdi Kanu is in Sokoto. So, sir the ball is your court.

“Bring this man out. If we don’t want him in Nigeria, send him back to Kenya or London, where he came from. Please do something about this. Agubuzu told the President,

“We can’t move forward in this country unless we face the truth.”

DAILY POST reports that the summit, with the theme “The Role of Traditional and Religious Leaders in Advancing the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative,” was held to increase community involvement in health system reforms.

The event, however, took an unexpected turn during the goodwill messages when Agubuzu pressed the President about Kanu’s fate.

He said, “I must tell you, Mr. President, that I don’t feel very happy because you weren’t here in the morning when the Ooni of Ife gave the opening speech and was encouraging everyone to work together as one.”

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2026/02/18/ooni-planning-title-for-igboho-monarch-openly-tells-tinubu-to-release-nnamdi-kanu

if all mornach were as brave and truthfull as that man

nigeria could have been a better place

Return him to kenya?


On what basis?

Is Kanu a Kenyan citizen?

Kanu Kanu. Very knowledgeable man with some hot temper.

If u call him a prophet, I dont think ull miss by much. Even if there's nothing you want to release him for, his accurate or near-accurate predictions should make you to cut him some slack.

Govt release this guy nauuu, even if u go give am conditions. Such talent wasting in jail. Damn

MondayD7:


if all mornach were as brave and truthfull as that man

Brave?

More like stupidity.

A convicted terrorist serving a life sentence should be released because his supporters want to ape out?

Kanu's kinsmen put him in prison

That's a brave monarch

If all were this brave, a said the truth without fear or favoutism.

May God bless him


The idiots in my own regions are collecting money from Godswill Akpabio and bid accordingly without hesitation or talking their ground for truth

He would be released after the general election

Hmmm. Okay. Monarchs are now speaking up. Let’s wait and see o. Everything na politics for this country. Don’t be surprised they would use Nnamdi Kanu’s release for their politics o

Both men adopted different tactical approach hence one escape and the other was so so unfortunate to have been sold out /caught.
We need to justice in fairness!

If all southeastern monarchs put mouth together and call for his release. The government will shift grown...but they are all fighting for their own pockets

Kanu doesn’t deserve to be released.

He deserves to languish in prison for the rest of his life.

I detest all these kings trying to appeal to other tribes for validation. He should remember that Wole Soyinka went into prison for them, still they are insulting him today.

Even the Governors and Senators in the east do not want him released.

Henry Orka is languishing in South Africa prison, Simon Ekpa in Finland, so why should we allow that arrogant man - Kanu - to walk free despite all the evils he committed against the state? Do we expect the world to help us do our laundry while we as a nation look the other way? The world will only take us for a joke.

How would other people whose father, mother, siblings were killed at the direction of Kanu feel if he’s walking free.

Just as forest belongs to Monkey, prison should be the natural abode of Kanu for the rest of his life .

Release him as per what , let him root in that prison and root in hell when he die

The end is near.

A new generation of leaders are rising up but the old ones won’t leave easily.

That’s why the USA is here in Nigeria to give the backup needed to restore what the British took away with religion and democracy.
Christianity must go

The king spoke like a true king.

Some people are claiming Kanu and igboho case are different the reason Igboho is out.


Then I ask,why was Igboho case wasn't settled in court since Both were charged to court by Buhari government?

Was he not supposed to be proved innocent in your Nigeria court?





God bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Logical. Logically sound.

The last time I checked,Nnamdi kanu and Sunday Igboho didn't commit same offence.

adenigga:
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Source: https://dailypost.ng/2026/02/18/ooni-planning-title-for-igboho-monarch-openly-tells-tinubu-to-release-nnamdi-kanu

he should call on trump to come and release cownu the convicted terrorist leader……..igboho is a true and courageous leader who was at the forefront of confronting the Fulani herders kidnapping and killing the Yoruba people on their land and never called for the killing of uniformed men and sit at home and also forming a militia group while hiding in far away UK and instigating hate and violence….that’s the difference between the two and he sure deserves the title

FSBoperator:
Brave?

More like stupidity.

A convicted terrorist serving a life sentence should be released because his supporters want to ape out?

Stop being foolish my dear.

Talk could be liken to knocking at the sharp edge of the knife.Truth is truth.Truth is universal there is no African or American truth.

If terrorists in the north can be forgiven why won't they forgive Kanu?



Tribalism/favourism don finish Nigeria patapata.




Nobody should mention me to cap nonsense, Kanu isn't worse than the terrorists in the north.

FSBoperator:
Brave?

More like stupidity.

A convicted terrorist serving a life sentence should be released because his supporters want to ape out?

What is the difference between Igboho and Kanu? Even the Boko haram convicts are being given pardons.

if Kanu could bring those he kill by giving orders to his foot soldiers then he will be free after all this king want everything to reset to normal

FSBoperator:
Brave?

More like stupidity.

A convicted terrorist serving a life sentence should be released because his supporters want to ape out?

You are more like the stu!!p!id one here

OJUENDAN:
The last time I checked,Nnamdi kanu and Sunday Igboho didn't commit same offence.

why Igboho case wasn't settled in court since Both were charged to court by Buhari government?

Was he not supposed to be proved innocent in your Nigeria court?

Enskynelson:
What is the difference between Igboho and Kanu? Even the Boko haram convicts are being given pardons.

The law does not know whataboutism

Bahamas95:
If terrorists in the north can be forgiven why won't they forgive Kanu?



Tribalism/favourism don finish Nigeria patapata.




Nobody should mention me to cap nonsense, Kanu isn't worse than the terrorists in the north.

Boko haram terrorists in the north get pardoned and Sunday Igboho who at a time was seeking for a Yoruba Nation is also awaiting Ooni's Chieftaincy Titile. Why should Kanu's own be different?

Bahamas95:
If terrorists in the north can be forgiven why won't they forgive Kanu?



Tribalism/favourism don finish Nigeria patapata.




Nobody should mention me to cap nonsense, Kanu isn't worse than the terrorists in the north.

Your Nigeria government only forgive terrorists.


Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a freedom fighter that's why they are holding him.


The name Nigeria is more important than the lives of citizens in it

This clown masquerading as a Monarch says Tinubu should send Kanu to Kenya or UK.

He says he is an Ambassador and a Dr. I don’t know if his Doctorate is earned or bought but if he is truly was an ambassador, he should know.

1: Kenya is a sovereign state, Nigeria has no power to send him there.

2: Kanu by virtue of being a convicted terrorist has automatically lost his British Citizenship so which Uk is he talking about?

3: They may both be secessionists but igboho wasn’t involved in or convicted of terrorism. Kanu wasn’t convicted as a secessionist but as a terrorist. So they are not the same.

Stupid question from efuluefu.

FSBoperator:
Return him to kenya?


On what basis?

Is Kanu a Kenyan citizen?

Die009:
if Kanu could bring those he kill by giving orders to his foot soldiers then he will be free after all this king want everything to reset to normal

What of hundreds of innocent people your Nigeria government killed?


Don't they deserve to live?