Ifeanyi Ubah, the lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District has said that South-East leaders are planning to meet President Bola Tinubu for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
Kanu has been in detention for
over 2 years which has fueled attacks in the Southeast.
According to Ubah, Kanu's release
will help reduce insecurity in the South-East geopolitical zone.
“There is a resolution that we
are going to meet with the president and we will tick his leniency and see if
it is going to be possible to plead with him to have Nnamdi Kanu released,”
Ubah said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
“We have taken that position and
for also some of us in the Senate, we have our caucus, we have also taken that
position.”
The lawmaker noted that Kanu’s
release is part of the discussion to put on table once they are able to get
into talks with the President.
He maintained that there is a
connection between releasing the IPOB leader and the state of security in the
South-East.
Ubah also said that Kanu is not
in support of sit-at-home, adding that he has said it publicly in one of his
appearances in court.
Further speaking, the lawmaker
divorced Kanu’s agitation from the sit-at-home, lamenting that the recent surge
of the sit-at-home order is stunting the growth of the economy of the zone.
“The agitation is different, we
are talking about sit-at-home which is really deteriorating the economy of the
southeast region. The agitation is a political issue about the inequities in
how an Igbo man is seen in Nigeria,” he said.
Ubah also said that the
South-East leaders are as well considering engaging with the government of
Finland to probe sit-at-home crusader, Simon Ekpa.
“We also need to look at the
young man that is in Finland that is causing all this problem and see how we
can diplomatically engage the government of Finland and show them that he is
not really giving a good service. Even though we don’t know if he has taken the
nationality of Finland,” he said.
Last week, the Senator had warned
Ekpa to carry the sit-at-home crusade to his home state of Ebonyi and leave
Anambra State alone.
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