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The South East Governors’ Forum has decided to visit President Bola Tinubu to demand the release of detained Biafran indigenous leader Nnamdi Kanu.
The governors took the decision after a meeting in Enugu State on Tuesday, July 2. Present at the meeting were governors Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Alex Otti (Abia), Chukwuma Soludo (Anambra), Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi) and Peter Mbah (Enugu), who met on Tuesday during a meeting held in Enugu State.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Uzodinma, noted that the delegation comprising former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku, and the Obi of Onitsha, Nnaemeka Achebe, paid a solidarity visit to the Forum.
Uzodinma said that at the Security and Economic Summit held in Owerri, Imo State capital, on September 28, 2023, the forum had “agreed to implement the security and economic integration aspects of the report and affirmed its desire to develop actionable plans on the agreed key issues.”
“The forum received a delegation of former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, GCON, and His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe CFR, Obi of Onitsha, who came on a solidarity visit to the forum. The forum decided to visit Mr. President to discuss pressing issues affecting the South Eastern region.
The forum also resolved to engage with the Federal Government to secure the release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.” Uzodinma said the governor’s forum also “commiserated with the government and people of Abia State, Ebonyi State, Imo State, South-East Nigeria and the family of Chief Ogbonnaya Onu over the demise of His Excellency, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu.” Kanu was arrested in July 2015 and is facing trial on treason charges leveled against him by the government.
He fled the country in 2017 after being granted bail, but was arrested again in Kenya and deported to Nigeria in 2021. Since then, he has been detained in the Department of State Services facility.
