By Gift Oba Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he did not discuss the issue of releasing Nnamdi Kanu during his meeting wit...
By Gift Oba
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he did not
discuss the issue of releasing Nnamdi Kanu during his meeting with the South
East governors in Enugu state .
DAILY POST reports that Obasanjo on Tuesday alongside Chief
Emeka Anyaoku and His Royal Majesty Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, met with the
South East governors.
Following the meeting, there were speculations that the
meeting discussed pressing issue of the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
However, Obasanjo in a statement by his Special Assistant on
Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Wednesday, said the meeting was to discuss regional
development issues and the purported planned release of Kanu by the Federal
government was not part of it.
He added that part of the issues discussed included security
and infrastructure, economic and cooperative/collaboration, which was meant to
complement the national economic development agenda.
Obasanjo said “The meeting with them was at my invitation
and of Chief Emeka Anyaoku before their summit begins. The issue of Nnamdi Kanu
was not on the agenda and was not discussed in my presence,”
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