By Okey Maduforo Awka.
Twenty four hours after Hon Justice James Omotoso delivered judgement sentencing the leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra IPOB Mazi Ejimofor to life imprisonment, the Igbo Community in Abuja FCT are apprehensive over the likely ripple effects it would have in the security of the South East geopolitical zone.
Their fears are that instead of the Federal High Court Abuja to set Kanu free to tame the six years of insecurity in the area , it had gone to deepen the already precarious situation making it impossible for insurgency to continue in the area.
According to the statement by the Chairman of Igbo Community in Abuja Engr Ikenna- Ellis Ezenekwe the Community is watching closely the fate of Nnamdi Kanu since after the judgment noting that the powers that be would be held accountable to the effects of the Court ruling on the zone .
“The Igbo Community within the Federal Capital Territory is watching the developments around Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with keen interest. What occured yesterday was injustice against a marginalized people'”
“The judgement of November 20, 2025 smarks of judicial recklessness laced with the worst type of bigotry. The type that threatened to end the existence of Nigeria during the period leading up to the prognom of 1966”
“The Igbo Community Association FCT [ICA FCT] is concerned over what the resultant effects of this judgement would have in the South East and other regions in Nigeria.”
The Community salutes the 44 National Assembly members who had so far made case before President Ahmed Bola Tinubu for the matter be resolved politically.
“With a very saddened heart, the ICA FCT calls on the Tinubu administration to listen to the voice of the people”
“To the voices of Forty four legislators of the National Assembly who joined the call for President Tinubu to seek a political solution to the Nnamdi Kanu impasse”
“ICA FCT is advising President Tinubu to seize this opportunity and grant Nnamdi Kanu freedom. It would be the wise approach to this situation” he said.
