Igbo Leaders Beg President Buhari To Pardon, Release IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu

Leaders in the South East have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

They made the plea on Friday at a meeting with the President who is on a two-day visit to Ebonyi State.

The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the South East, Reverend Father Abraham Nwali, made the plea on behalf of the South-East leaders in his address at the Ebonyi State Stakeholders’ Forum held at the Government House in Abakaliki, the state capital.

Nwali also urged IPOB to embrace peace and end its sit-at-home order in the region.

“We plead for a political solution that as a father; a kind father, a forgiving father, to grant Nnamdi Kanu freedom,” he said.

“We say that he should be granted pardon. And we call on all agitators to cease all forms of hostilities and rather demand a nation where the plights of the poor, the weak, the oppressed will be addressed.”

Kanu is facing terrorism charges before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

He has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The IPOB leader was detained after he was arrested in Kenya and brought to Nigeria in June 2021.