By Seun Opejobi The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday warned that its leader Nnamdi Kanu cannot be sacrificed to save c...
By Seun Opejobi
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday warned
that its leader Nnamdi Kanu cannot be sacrificed to save corrupt politicians.
It cautioned Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High
Court against jailing Kanu.
The group also charged Nyako to step down from Kanu’s trial,
alleging that she had been compromised.
In a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, IPOB urged
Western countries and human rights organisations like Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch, Inter-Society organisation and other reputable human rights
organisations to prevail over the Nigerian Government, President Bola Tinubu,
and Justice Nyako to save the country’s judicial system by releasing Kanu.
The statement reads: “The global family and movement of the
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the indomitable and charismatic
leader Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu reiterate our demand that Justice Binta
Nyako step down from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case. Justice Binta Nyako is already
compromised because the Federal Government of Nigeria is pointing a gun on her
head to jail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in order to free her husband and son from their
EFCC case.
“IPOB will never allow the Federal Government to use our
leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as bait to entice Justice Binta Nyako to carry out
their ugly agenda. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu cannot be sacrificed to save the corrupt
and treasury looters, Nyako Father and Son team.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has not committed any offence known to
law. His only offence is that he is championing Biafra’s self-determination
movement. If Justice Binta Nyako succumbs to the Fulani government’s pressure
and jails Mazi Nnamdi, she will still be eliminated by the same government to
cover it up so that it can not be traced back to them.
“Therefore, Justice Binta Nyako will save her life and that
of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by stepping down from the case. BINTA NYAKO must understand
that Mazi Nnamdi KANU belongs to every South Easterner and they don’t want to
see anything ugly happen to him. The calamity that will befall the country will
be better imagined. Bola Ahmed Tinubu and BINTA Nyako must save their country
by releasing Mazi Nnamdi Okwu Kanu.
“The Buhari Government and the former Attorney General,
Abubakar Malami used Justice Binta Nyako to keep Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case
ongoing perpetually. Also, the current government of Bola Ahamed Tinubu and his
AGF Lateef Fagbemi has continued blackmailing Justice Binta Nyako with her
husband and son’s cases at EFCC.
“Justice Binta Nyako is under gunpoint to either jail Mazi
Nnamdi Okwu Kanu or her husband and son will be jailed by EFCC. Justice Binta
Nyako is at a crossroads as to jail an innocent man or allow her husband and
son to go to jail. Justice Binta Nyako is human and will certainly do anything
to save her husband and son from serving a prolonged jail sentence. IPOB
understands the precarious situation Justice Binta Nyako has found herself in.
That is why we demand that she steps down from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case.
“IPOB is calling Binta Nyako to step down from Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu’s case. She should avoid plunging Nigeria into an unimaginable crisis.
Binta Nyako must redeem herself from this case or posterity will never be kind
to her and her generation. Justice Nyako should save herself from the mess that
her husband has put her in by stepping down.
“Justice Binta Nyako is not the only High Court Judge in
Nigeria. But she is the preferred judge to the Nigerian government because they
are using her husband’s and son’s pending fraud case with EFCC to blackmail her
into submission and to do the will of the Government. Justice Binta Nyako’s
hands are tied and cannot deliver justice for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB.
“Biafrans both home and the diaspora demand that Justice
Binta Nyako step down from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case without delay. She will not
deliver a fair judgment because she is under uncontrollable pressure from the
Federal Government of Nigeria to jail an innocent man to save her husband and
son from EFCC. Intimidating Justice Binta Nyako, a wife and mother to choose
between saving her child and husband from imprisonment for unproven fraud or to
continue the illegal detention and jailing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is pure evil.
IPOB will not allow our leader to be sacrificed for the sins of the Nyakos and
that is why we repeat our demand that Justice Binta Nyako step down without
further delays.”
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