Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the release of Nnamdi Kanu was not on the table when he met with governors of the south-east region on Tuesday.
Governors under the aegis of the south-east governors’ forum
resolved to meet with President Bola Tinubu on Kanu, leader of the proscribed
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo and chairman of the forum,
listed a planned “engagement” with the federal government on Kanu as one of the
resolutions reached at the Enugu meeting.
Obasanjo had also paid a solidarity visit to the south-east
governors forum on the day.
In a statement issued through Kehinde Akinyemi, his special
assistant on media affairs, Obasanjo said the meeting he held with the
governors revolved around “regional development issues”.
“The regional development issues include that of security
and infrastructure. Others were economic and cooperative/collaboration, which
was meant to complement the national economic development agenda,” the
statement reads.
“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,” Obasanjo was quoted as
saying.
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State
Services (DSS) since his extradition to Nigeria in 2021. He is standing trial
on charges bordering on treasonable felony and was denied bail in May.
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