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Human rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has called connected salient governmental and accepted leaders from the South-East portion to instrumentality decisive enactment towards securing the merchandise of detained person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Sowore, who made the declaration successful a station connected his verified societal media handles connected Wednesday, said helium was acceptable to pb a peaceful and lawful march to the Aso Rock Villa successful Abuja, urging South-East governors, lawmakers, accepted rulers, and spiritual figures to determination beyond “empty rhetoric” and amusement existent committedness to Kanu’s cause.
“I volition acceptable speech my differences with immoderate politicians for 1 cause,” Sowore wrote.
“I situation each person oregon idiosyncratic of bully conscience from the South-East who says they privation Nnamdi Kanu released to halt the rhetoric. Time for enactment is NOW. Let’s march to the Aso Rock Villa.”
The #RevolutionNow convener specifically named Anambra State governor, Chukwuma Soludo; Abia State governor, Alex Otti; Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and erstwhile Labour Party statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, urging them to physically articulation the march.
“No much bare noise,” helium said. “Let Governor Soludo (@CCSoludo), Senator Abaribe (@SenatorAbaribe), Alex Otti (@alexottiofr), Peter Obi (@PeterObi), and each others who assertion to attraction measurement up and articulation america successful person.”
According to Sowore, the planned march volition beryllium conducted peacefully and legally, focusing connected demanding justness and an extremity to what helium described arsenic the “persecution” of the IPOB leader.
“We spell unneurotic peacefully, legally, and visibly to request justness and an extremity to MNK’s persecution. #FreeNnamdiKanuNow,” helium added.
Responding to Sowore’s call, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s Special Counsel, expressed his readiness to articulation the peaceful demonstration.
“Dear Sowore, I hereby measurement guardant to march with you to Aso Rock to ‘peacefully and visibly request justice’ for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Who is with me? Ndigbo ahoy!” Ejimakor said successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter).
LEADERSHIP reports that Nnamdi Kanu has remained successful the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 2021 pursuing his apprehension and rendition from Kenya nether arguable circumstances.
He faces aggregate charges, including terrorism, treasonable felony, and incitement, filed by the Federal Government earlier the Federal High Court successful Abuja. Kanu has consistently pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.
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