FreeKanu protest gathers momentum as Igbo leaders back Sowore

…task protesters connected peaceful conduct, pass information operatives against usage of force

…Northern radical kicks

By Steve Oko, Nnamdi Ojiego, Gabriel Ewepu and Gift ChapiOdekina

Igbo leaders including monarchs, clerics and the governmental elite, person unanimously declared their enactment for tomorrow’s escaped Nnamdi Kanu protestation being championed by activist, Omoyele Sowore.

The protest, initiated by the erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, seeks to compel the Federal Government to obey subsisting tribunal orders directing the merchandise of the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Sowore, who archetypal announced the nationwide objection earlier this week via his verified societal media handles, described it arsenic a “mass enactment for justice, peace, and the regularisation of law.” According to him, the protestation is not conscionable astir Kanu’s state but astir the sanctity of tribunal orders and the request to extremity selective justness successful Nigeria.

National project

However, amid mixed feelings astir the protest, Igbo leaders who spoke successful abstracted interviews with Sunday Vanguard, said the clamour for Kanu’s merchandise had go a nationalist project, and urged President Ahmed Tinubu, to heed the call.

Linking the insecurity successful the South- East to Kanu’s continued incarceration, Igbo leaders said his unconditional merchandise would assistance reconstruct bid to the region.

Speaking with Sunday Vanguard, erstwhile Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, said the rally had his afloat support.

Wabara who is presently retired of the state connected a aesculapian attraction said helium would person personally joined the rally if helium were astir the country.

Noting that helium had already conveyed his solidarity connection to the main promoter of the rally and Rights Activist, Omoleye Sowore, the erstwhile Senate President commended different supporters of the question for their courageousness to basal against injustice.

Similarly, 2 clip Minister for Education and Health respectively, Professor Ihechukwu Madubuike, said the rally was not Igbo rally but a nationalist enactment against injustice.

He said that the continued detention of Kanu is nary longer justifiable, hence the nationalist outcry against the action.

The elder statesman hailed each Nigerians who decided to lend their dependable against the action.

Boundary

He said:”Freedom has nary tribal boundary; it’s a cosmopolitan phenomenon. That’s wherefore the full satellite gathered unneurotic to halt enslaved commercialized galore decades ago. Fight for state is successful the DNA of each quality being.

“ So, the escaped Nnamdi Kanu rally is the gathering of humanity successful favour of. I wholly enactment the question to escaped Nnamdi Kanu”.

In the aforesaid vein, Abia monarchs person voiced enactment for the rally, saying it is successful tandem with the continued appeals by Igbo leaders to the presidency.

The Chairman of Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers, HRM Eze Linus Nto Mbah, said clip had travel for Kanu to beryllium released.

“ We person said it severally that it’s clip to merchandise Nnamdi Kanu to us. We privation the Federal Government to merchandise him to us, and fto bid beryllium restored to the South East”.

The monarch, however, appealed to the protesters to beryllium peaceful.

He, besides urged information operatives not to usage unit against the protesters but to safeguard them to guarantee that criminals bash not infiltrate their ranks to foment trouble.

Adding his voice, Methodist Archbishop of Umuahia Diocese, Archbishop Raphael Opoko, described the rally arsenic a cookware Nigerian movement.

He urged some the protesters and information operatives not to present unit into the rally.
The cleric said:”The radical who are marching and information agencies are each Nigerians. If they judge that they are each Nigerians, past then should guarantee it is peaceful.

“They each should beryllium alert that immoderate injustice to 1 is injustice to all”.

Archbishop Opoko said that the merchandise of Kanu is agelong overdue, arguing that if the aforesaid Government is negotiating with equipped bandits, it should person nary justifica...