*Gets former President Jonathan to accept to appeal to Tinubu
Activist, Omoleye Sowore, has Saturday, during a meeting, urged former President Goodluck Jonathan to join in the crusade for the release from detention, of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement, Omoleye stated that “President Jonathan agreed that there is an urgent and compelling need to address this matter decisively and justly”.
According to him: “I thank him sincerely for recognizing the importance of resolving Kanu’s case in the interest of peace, fairness, and national healing.
“Particularly assuring was that he promised to meet Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to discuss this issue as soon as possible.
“With this, former President Jonathan joins a growing list of Nigerians who have called for justice in Nnamdi Kanu’s case, a list that already includes ex Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Femi Falana SAN, Sen. Shehu Sani, and many others across political and regional divides.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains in detention today because he took up the just cause of confronting the long-standing issue of marginalization in Nigeria.
“Like other ethnic and regional activists whose politically motivated cases have been withdrawn or dismissed, Nnamdi Kanu should also be released without further delay.
“I once again call on all political, cultural, ethnic, and religious leaders across Nigeria to join this noble cause.
“In particular, I invite my brothers and sisters from the South-East: Mr. Peter Obi, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Alex C Otti, Francis Nwifuru, Peter Mbah, Hope Uzodinma, Obiageli Ezekwesili, John Mbata of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide as well as Nigerians of conscience everywhere, to lend their voices to the call for justice and freedom.
“Nnamdi Kanu should be set free. And I remain firmly committed to peacefully mobilizing for justice and freedom in this matter. #FreeNnamdiKanuNow”.
Omoleye, however, failed to recognise the series of efforts of several past and the present leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Mr. Peter Obi, the South-East Governors Forum, captains of industry from Igbo land, and in particular, the former Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and Sen. Enyinna Abaribe, who secured bail for Kanu and have been in the vanguard for Kanu’s release unconditionally, making it seem as if, he was the one inviting them to action in Kanu’s incarceration.”
