President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been called upon, to effect the quick release of the leader of a self-determination group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
Making this call through a letter to the president on Twitter, the Special Counsel to the IPOB leader, Aloy Ejimakor urged President Tinubu not to toll the path of late Military Head of State, Sani Abacha and former President Muhammadu Buhari over their perspective on self-determination.
According to Ejimakor who warned that the failure to release Kanu would boomerang, President Tinubu himself had once said that he did believe in one Nigeria.
“Dear Mr President: It boomerangs when the State (in this case: the President) fails to enforce a Judgment (domestic or foreign) against the State, just because it’s against the State.
“Whenever this happens, the legitimacy of the State is called into question. #FreeMNK, Now. Pursued by Abacha, President Tinubu went into exile in 1994 & in April 1997, he declared ‘I don’t believe in #OneNigeria’.
“In 1998, he returned to Nigeria after Abacha’s death. Mr President, you once demanded Self Determination. You’re not an Abacha or a Buhari. #FreeMNK,” Ejimakor wrote.
