As President, Atiku’ll release Nnamdi Kanu, says Obiora Okonkwo
THE Director-General of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, in Anambra State, Professor Obiora Okonkwo, has expressed optimism that presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will grant detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, unconditional release when he emerges president on May 29. Kanu has been in the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, since June 2021, when he was intercepted and renditioned to Nigeria from Kenya by the Federal Government to terrorism charges. However, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, October 13, 2022, quashed the terrorism charge the Federal Government had preferred against the detained IPOB leader. It acquitted him of the seven-count charge pending against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja. In a landmark judgement, the appellate court led by Justice Jummai Hanatu, stated that the “Federal Government flagrantly violated t...