December 06, (THEWILL) – The Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ogun State Chapter, has cautioned the Northern Elders Forum over the statement credited to them that President Muhammadu Buhari should not release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
THEWILL recalls that Kanu, who is currently standing trial at the court on treason, terrorism, among others, was re-arrested and repatriated through the joint efforts of security operatives and the Interpol.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with THEWILL, the State Secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Mr John Ogunebunwa, said that NEF had no right to dictate to President Buhari on the release of Kanu because the country does not belong to the northerners alone.
Ogunebunwa accused the northern elders of trying to overheat the polity, while calling on the President to ignore the group’s statement and consider the Igbo elders’ request to terminate Kanu’s trial.
“It is a very wrong opinion. The northern elders are trying to heat up the polity. Why should tell President Muhammadu Buhari not to release Kanu?
“He (Buhari) has the power to release him. It is just a matter of directing the Attorney-General of the Federation to discontinue the case.
“They (NEF) should take it easy because Nigeria belongs to all of us, it does not belong to the north alone,” he said.
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