Nnamdi Kanu’s prolonged detention agitating Igbos – Ejimakor warns Tinubu

Aloy Ejimakor, lead counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has informed President Bola Tinubu that the continued detention of the Biafra agitator is pushing Igbos to boot.

Ejimakor reminded Tinubu that those advising him to keep Kanu detained illegally are his enemies.

Kanu has remained locked up by the Department of State Services, DSS, on the order of the Nigerian government.

This is despite court orders granting the IPOB leader bail.

However, a statement by Ejimakor on Sunday said: “In October 2022, the Federal High Court ruled that the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Abuja is unconstitutional.

“Mr. President: Continuing to detain #MNK despite this judgment is illegal, and it’s agitating #Ndigbo to boot. Anybody telling you otherwise is your enemy.

“Let it be clear that my public crusade against the continued detention and trial of Kanu is driven by the standing judicial pronouncements and legal principles against his rendition, detention and trial. A lot of folks are probably unaware that there is a subsisting Federal High Court judgment that declared his rendition and detention unconstitutional and two international tribunal pronouncements in the same regard.

“There is also this malicious fallacy by fringe government elements that his continued detention furthers national security. That’s so myopic, because any reasonable and sincere observer will see the opposite when you take stock of the reality that insecurity actually surged in the Southeast following Kanu’s rendition in 2021.

“To be sure, any notion of national security is incomplete without a concomitant regional security in the Southeast. Thus, President Tinubu should be wary of anybody that advises him to persist in this infamous detention and trial of Nnamdi Kanu. It is as illegal as it is also politically risky.”