- Abaribe opined that releasing Kanu would end the issue of violence and criminalities in the Southeast.
Abia South Senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has appealed to president Bola Tinubu to release embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
This is even as the senator expressed his readiness to stand as a guarantor for the troubled separatist.
Abaribe spoke while addressing newsmen after his visit to Governor Alex Otti of Enugu State.
He also implored President Bola Tinubu to heed the advice of the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi and other stakeholders to release Kanu.
Abaribe opined that releasing Kanu would end the issue of violence and criminalities in the Southeast.
He said: “I expect that the President will listen to both his Attorney General and every one of us who have been agitating that the issues in the Southeast; first of all the insurgency, the sit-at-home on Mondays and every other thing we have noticed in the Southeast, what we now know in the Southeast is that criminals and all other people who advocate violence have taken over and using the name Nnamdi Kanu to perpetuate all these their despicable acts.
“We know that the President, being a listening President, will also look at all the issues involved which we have presented to him from various mediums and that he will do the needful and release Nnamdi Kanu so that it will put a stop to all these things that are happening in the Southeast and bring back the Southeast as the hub of production in Nigeria.
“So he needs Nnamdi Kanu out so that all those things that are holding us down in the Southeast, that have made us not produce as much as we ought to produce, will not be there.
“So, we continue to call on President Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu and we are ready and willing to be guarantors for him to be released so that we can have life coming back into the Southeast and take it away from the criminals, kidnappers, the cultists and dangerous elements that are floating around us who have made it a point that they would perpetrate violence, do criminal activities and use Nnamdi Kanu’s name as their reason.”
Kanu remains incarcerated since June 2021 when he was rearrested and subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.
Upon his return to Nigeria, the Appeal Court in Abuja ordered his release but the Nigerian government refused to let him off the hook