Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, has called on President Bola Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Abaribe stated his willingness to serve as a guarantor for Kanu’s release, expressing confidence that this step could restore peace and stability in Nigeria’s Southeast region.
The senator shared his views during a conversation with journalists following his visit to Governor Alex Otti in Enugu State.
Highlighting the persistent challenges in the Southeast, Abaribe urged President Tinubu to heed advice from key stakeholders, including the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, who have advocated for Kanu’s release.
Abaribe argued that Kanu’s continued detention fuels instability in the region, allowing criminal elements to operate under the guise of his name.
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.”
