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Thursday, October 9th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has slammed the national authorities for the continuous detention of Nnamdi Kanu, person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), describing his detention arsenic a “stain connected our content successful the regularisation of law” and besides an maltreatment of power.
The African Examiner writes that Kanu has been detention since his re-arrest successful June 2021.
Atiku, successful a statement, frowned astatine the defiance of tribunal orders which granted Kanu bail, calling it “an battle connected justice”.
He besides expressed enactment for the planned protestation of Omoyele Sowore, an activistic and steadfast of Sahara Reporters, asking for the merchandise of Nnamdi Kanu.
“The continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains an unfastened sore connected our nation’s conscience and a stain connected our content successful the regularisation of law,” Abubakar writes connected X
“Defying tribunal orders that granted him bail is an maltreatment of powerfulness and an battle connected justice. I, therefore, lend my dependable successful afloat enactment of the run led by Yele Sowore for his contiguous merchandise oregon owed prosecution.
“We neglect arsenic patriots if we let Kanu’s lawsuit to fester arsenic yet different coiled this federation refuses to heal.”
Sowore had earlier announced connected Wednesday that a protestation march to the statesmanlike villa connected Kanu’s continued detention volition beryllium held connected October 20.
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