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Reno Omokri, a former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday described as a big lie the claim by Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi on a court ruling ordering the release of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu.
Obi in a statement last week urged President Bola Tinubu’s government to comply with existing court orders and release the Biafran agitator.
However, following a fresh ruling by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, Omokri lashed out at the former Anambra state governor, saying he had lied about the existence of the order.
Justice Omotosho earlier on Monday dismissed another fundamental human rights suit filed by Kanu against the Federal Government.
In a post on his verified X account titled “Peter Obi is lying. There is no court order in force ordering the release of Nnamdi Kanu from DSS custody,” Omokri said:
“Contrary to Peter Obi’s claims, in a unanimous judgment on December 15, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Nnamdi Kanu must answer for treason.
“Thereafter, on May 20, 2024, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ruled that Nnamdi Kanu should be denied bail.
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“If Peter Obi or any of his Obidients can produce the next court order made to challenge the Supreme Court judgment of Friday, December 15, 2023, or the Federal High Court order of Monday, May 20, 2024, I will pay the first person who produces such a judgment $10,000.
“Failing that, Mr. Peter Obi is advised to stop spreading IPOB propaganda that the court ruling in force orders the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
“The difference between Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu is that while Nnamdi Kanu made a public broadcast instructing his supporters to kill officers and soldiers of the Nigerian military and paramilitary forces, and thereafter, unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra killed over a hundred security personnel in the South-East, Sunday Igboho did no such thing.
“Sunday Igboho was declared a wanted man by the Buhari administration for waging a militia war against Nigerian Fulani herdsmen in some parts of Oyo State alleging that they were behind a series of kidnappings for ransom in the area.
“When he was arrested in Benin Republic, Sunday Igboho took the Benin Government to court and, on October 9, 2023, defeated them in court and secured his freedom.
“He then left the Republic of Benin for Germany and, on December 5, 2023, defeated the Government of the Republic of Benin again in the ECOWAS court, which ordered Benin to pay him 20 million CFA.
“The Nigerian government did not release Sunday Igboho. The Benin court released him, and then further protected him by the ECOWAS court. He and Nnamdi Kanu are not in the same class.
“Now, look how they insult me, because they cannot fault the facts I have presented.”
Peter Obi Lies: No Court Ruling Ordering Nnamdi Kanu’s Release
Peter Obi is lying. There is no court order in force ordering the release of Nnamdi Kanu from DSS custody. And the comparison Obidients is making between Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, is…
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) July 1, 2024
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