By Chijindu Emeruwa A pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Nzuko Ndigbo, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment during ...
By Chijindu Emeruwa
A pan-Igbo socio-cultural organization, Nzuko Ndigbo, has
condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment during the recent visit by Igbo
leaders to the State House Abuja over the continued incarceration of the leader
of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the facility of
the Department of State Service (DSS).
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had remarked that he
would consider the IPOB leader’s release.
Buhari made the remark during a meeting with some Southeast
leaders under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic
parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi at the State
House, Abuja.
Amaechi pleaded with the president to release Kanu, rather
than opt for military actions.
DAILY POST reports that the secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu
is facing treasonable felony charges preferred against him by the federal
government of Nigeria before Justice Binta Murtala Nyako-led Federal High Court
in Abuja.
Reacting, Nzuko Ndigbo, in a statement by its Director of
Media and Publicity, Mr. Edomobi Promise, and forwarded to DAILY POST on
Sunday, noted that the President is not doing any favour to Ndigbo by the
promise but doing what he is supposed to do.
The group maintained that there was no reason at all for
arresting the IPOB leader in a gestapo manner and demanded for the trial of all
those that abducted him from Kenya.
The Nzuko Ndigbo advised against people visiting President
Buhari on behalf of Ndigbo without discussing with anybody.
The socio-cultural organization also noted that it is killer
herdsmen, bandits and Boko Haram that should be targeted by Buhari and not
Nnamdi Kanu or the Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho.
According to the Nzuko Ndigbo, “Let Buhari release and
apologize to Nnamdi Kanu for unlawful kidnapping by the federal government”.
Meanwhile, Pan-Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction
Coalition, PANPIEC, has commended igbos they have so far declared to contest in
the 2023 Presidential election.
The Executive Secretary of the group, Chuks Ibegbu in a
statement on Sunday, noted that the coast is now getting clearer and
encouraging.
The PANPIEC asked more aspirants of Igbo extraction to
declare their interest soonest as Nigerians expect them to come out in
readiness and zeal to be taken seriously.
The group also asked all the political parties in Nigeria to
zone their 2023 presidential seat to Igbo land.
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