Grant Kanu pardon now, Okorie urges Tinubu

By Clifford Ndujihe

Founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and Convener/ National Chairman, Igbo Agenda Dialogue, IAD, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has called for political pardon for convicted Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Speaking on Kanu’s conviction and sentencing to life imprisonment for terrorism by a Federal High Court, yesterday, Okorie described the trial of Kanu as flawed and political, and urged President Bola Tinubu to pardon the IPOB leader and grant him freedom before the matter gets to the appeal court.

His words: “I feel sad that after all the legal rigmarole in the matter of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, it has ended up in his being sentenced to a life imprisonment. I had severally maintained that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s agitation for the self-determination of the Igbo people by exiting Nigeria was not only political but within his fundamental right of freedom of expression. I advised Nigerian governments that the legal process would not resolve this matter. It can be said that Nnamdi Kanu’s crusade is an offshoot of Chief Ralph Uwazurike’s MASSOB.

The trial of Nnamdi Kanu is fundamentally flawed, given the nature of his extraordinary rendition from Kenya. It is with every sense of responsibility that I urge President Tinubu to take immediate steps to invoke his special presidential dispensation to halt Nnamdi Kanu’s highly incendiary matter and grant him pardon without allowing the parties to proceed with appeals at the appellate and apex courts.

“There are several flash points in Nigeria at this time, and the country is in the eye of the storm in the comity of nations. “The ball is now in the court of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. How he responds to this tasty moment will determine the direction of all the various outcomes, one way or the other.”

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