PRESS RELEASE.
It is with utmost sense of responsibility and patriotism that I passionately appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sieze the moment and grant or facilitate the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his fellow prisoners of conscience from further incarceration in Nigerian dungeons.
I am persuaded by the new opportunity provided by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, whose administrative intervention prompted the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to reassign the protracted suit first filed by the Federal Government against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on the 23rd of November, 2015Â in an Abuja Magistrate Court.
Since 2015, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has suffered grievously, including his extraordinary rendition from Kenya on the 27th of June 2021. It is a known fact that by the operation of the law, this matter will be re-instituted afresh. This window provides President Tinubu the leverage to direct the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to enter a nolle prosequi in the Nnamdi Kanu matter to discharge and acquit him and bring a closure to his vexatious incarceration.
I appreciate the fact that President Tinubu inherited the liability of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s unjustified detention, but since government is a continuum, the onus is on the president to bring this matter to an end. There is no doubt that the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a huge local and international embarrassment to Nigeria. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has become the symbol of the struggle of the Igbo Nation for equity, justice, and fairness.
I venture to state unequivocally that the average Igbo person in Nigeria and in the diaspora feels the pain of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s unjustified continued suffering for simply speaking out for his people. The economic and security stability and gain the freedom of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will bring to the Southeast geopolitical zone is unquantifiable.
President Tinubu may never imagine the several political mileage he will travel by granting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu freedom at this time. I enjoin President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to consider this appeal with dispassion and compassion.
Chief Dr. Chekwas Okorie
(Ojeozi Ndigbo)
12/03/2025.
