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…Urge Peaceful, Massive Participation connected October 20
By Steve Oko
Support for the planned peaceful march to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, initiated by rights activistic Omoyele Sowore to request the unconditional merchandise of the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has continued to grow, with the Ndigbo World Union (NWU) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) declaring afloat enactment for the initiative.
In abstracted statements, some groups described the October 20, 2025, march arsenic a morganatic and nonviolent telephone for justice, urging Nigerians—particularly Igbo groups and students crossed the country—to enactment peacefully and successful ample numbers.
The Ndigbo World Union, successful a connection jointly signed by its Chairman, Hon. Benjamin Nwankwo, and Secretary, Chief Charles Edemuzor, called connected Ndigbo astatine location and overseas to afloat place with what it described arsenic a “moral pilgrimage of conscience.”
The radical said Kanu’s continued detention “is a stain connected the conscience of immoderate federation that claims to signifier ideology and justice.”
“Kanu remains the pre-eminent state combatant of Africa, a antheral illegally renditioned and unjustly detained successful usurpation of some Nigerian instrumentality and planetary conventions,” the connection read.
“This historical peaceful march to Aso Rock is not a protestation of unit but a motivation telephone for Nigeria to instrumentality to justice, humanity, and the regularisation of law.”
Commending Sowore, Hon. Obi Aguocha, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and others supporting the initiative, the radical urged Igbo governmental leaders, including members of the Abia State House of Assembly, to place with the movement.
“Let each Igbo union, pupil body, marketplace association, church, municipality union, and diaspora section mobilize peacefully and massively. Let our beingness beryllium a grounds that we person not abandoned our own,” the radical added.
The NWU, however, cautioned participants to support subject and debar immoderate signifier of unit oregon provocation, informing against infiltration by mischief-makers.
“We indispensable uphold peaceful comportment passim this campaign. Let our chants beryllium songs of peace; fto our banners proclaim justice; fto our feet march with dignity,” the radical said.
It besides called connected the United Nations, African Union, and ECOWAS Court to instrumentality enactment of what it termed a quality rights situation surrounding Kanu’s detention.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), successful a abstracted connection signed by its National President, Comrade Atiku Isah, announced that the pupil assemblage had resolved to articulation the march.
According to Isah, the determination was reached astatine a caller nationalist enforcement gathering of NANS, which reaffirmed the association’s committedness to peaceful advocacy for justness and antiauthoritarian accountability.
The connection directed zonal leaders to coordinate mobilization and proscription of students to Abuja up of the protest.
“Students from the South West Zone volition converge successful Ekiti, the South East successful Enugu, the South South successful Edo, the North East successful Bauchi, the North West successful Kano, and the North Central successful Lokoja earlier departing for Abuja connected October 19,” NANS stated.
Each zone, it added, volition beryllium allocated 10 buses to facilitate transportation, with further logistics communicated to Students’ Union Government (SUG) presidents nationwide.
“This mobilization is portion of our corporate request for justice, civilian rights, and antiauthoritarian accountability. As students, we affirm that state is achieved done struggle, and we stay committed to peaceful advocacy for what is right,” the connection added.
The station Ndigbo World Union, NANS state enactment for Sowore’s planned ‘Free Kanu’ march appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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