The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Youth Council Worldwide on Friday and ahead of the 2019 general elections
tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to grant Presidential pardon to Nnamdi Kanu.
Nnamdi Kanu, the national leader
of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was allegedly sighted while praying
at his hideout in far away Israel.
The demand for the Presidential
pardon on Kanu was contained in a statement signed and issued to journalists in
Abakaliki by the Deputy President General of the group, Comrade Obinna
Achionye.
He urged the Federal Government
to grant Kanu pardon to enable him return home, especially as the 2019 general
election approaches.
“We Urge President Muhammadu
Buhari to grant him presidential pardon and quash all legal proceedings
instituted against him in the spirit of national reconciliation and
forgiveness”.
Ohaneze noted that if the Federal
Government can release Boko Haram detainees in Kano and is planning to give
amnesty to Boko Haram suspects, the same gesture should be extended to IPOB and
Mr Kanu.
“They should reverse the tag of
IPOB as a terrorist organization and allow peace to reign,” the group said.
The group also urged IPOB
followers not to go to the street now in the spirit of jubilation in order not
to create political tension in the South East and South/South geopolitical
zones.
“We Urge the South East Governors
to close ranks and rebuild the palace of Nnamdi Kanu’s father, HRH Eze I. Kanu
which was destroyed during the Python dance.
“We also ask the leader, Nnamdi
Kanu to change strategy and embrace the hands of genuine Igbo brothers and leaders.
We still ask IPOB to have a rethink on its decision of proscribing the parent
body of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and disruption of Ohanaeze events” he added.
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