Monday, June 17, 2024 - Edwin Clark, the convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has called on President Bola Tinubu to direct Lateef Fagbemi, attorney-general of the federation (AGF) to drop all charges against Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
In an open letter addressed to Tinubu
on Sunday, June 16, Clark said presidential executive powers should be used to
release the IPOB leader.
“I have never supported the activities of IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, but today, Nigeria, a broken country where many groups and nativities have cried foul to the way Nigeria had been going since 1999 because of the military constitution imposed on Nigerians by the military,” the letter reads.
“Today,
our economy is failing, our democracy is failing, our education and health
institutions are collapsing, the youths are jobless, and some people are
treated as second-class citizens while a few enjoy the fruit of the so-called
democracy we are passing through, coupled with the violence and insecurity in
the south-east; and if allowed to continue, the consequences will be very
unpleasant to all Nigerians.
“The unity of Nigeria can only be
achieved and sustained if every part of the country is treated equally with the
other parts, in all ramifications.
“No one can play God over Nigeria, and no section owns this country more than any other section. We want Mr President to reassure Nigerians of our oneness.”
Clark claimed Kanu’s release would end the
Monday sit-at-home order in the South-East and restore peace in the country.
“Let me re-emphasize the importance and
urgency of reintegrating the Igbos into the mainstream of Nigeria, where their
region will be equal with other regions in all ramifications, meaning that they
should be fully and unconditionally united or be admitted into the union of
Nigeria as it was before the civil war,” Clark said.
“The release of Nnamdi Kanu by Mr.
President on political grounds is overdue, as earlier explained.
“M byr. President should direct the
attorney general to enter a nolle prosequi to free Nnamdi Kanu, who has shown
his intention to work with the federal government, in order to bring peace and
stability in the south-east and to Nigerians as a whole, as it has been
recently done in similar cases of treasonable felony, as in the case of Miyetti
Allah president Abdullahi Bello Bodejo of Nasarawa state.”
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