The ongoing detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader, as Nigeria’s national elections in 2023 approach, may have an impact on the results.
Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, expressed concern about his ongoing arrest and feared that youth in the Southeast would rebel against the conduct of elections in 2023.
Isiguzoro pleaded with the Federal Government to pardon Kanu in order to placate the Southeasterners.
In order to ensure that Kanu and IPOB members put an end to the Biafra movement, he told President Muhammadu Buhari that significant leaders in the Southeast are prepared to speak with the Federal Government.
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Isiguzoro claims that there is concern that Nnamdi Kanu’s release could threaten the 2023 elections as well as concern that his detention could have an impact on those elections.
Those who wear the shoes are aware of where it pinches them, I must make it apparent. Since Kanu’s arrest, the Southeast has been plagued by security issues that have lasted for more than a year.
The people of the Southeast are pleading with the Federal Government to forgo the expensive option of reducing insecurity there and to stop challenging the Appeal Court’s ruling.
The people in the Southeast are prepared to engage in conversation with the Federal Government and should exert pressure on Kanu to do the same. The Federal Government should take this possibility into consideration. Igbo elites like Emeka Anyioku, Mbalulike Amaechi, and other elite Igbo people are prepared to correct Kanu, but discussion is necessary to ensure that the Southeast’s deteriorating economy, which is linked to ghost Mondays, is resolved. The government should take this into account and use dialogue to resolve this issue in the Southeast rather than spending billions on the fight against insecurity.
In relation to the elections, it’s possible that the youngsters would rebel and demand that there be no voting if Kanu isn’t
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In order to provide care packages for Kanu and other members of pro-Biafra organisations who are imprisoned, the Federal Government must come to an accurate and firm understanding with Igbo leaders. The Federal Government could speak with IPOB members and offer them some welfare benefits if it can heal rebels in the North and reintegrate them into society. They’d stop thinking about Biafra because of this.
The Federal Government should choose discussion as the easiest and least expensive means of resolving this insecurity issue. Instead of us being the target of dialogue, the Federal Government ought to be demonstrating a desire for it.
How would you turn over a more safe nation without placating the Southeast population? Buhari has stated that he wants to leave Nigeria more united and secure. We are requesting that he give them one more opportunity. He and his boys should be granted amnesty so that the election can be held peacefully.
Ohanaeze has been requesting Kanu’s release not because we are IPOB members but rather because the tranquilly we had been experiencing in the Southeast for the previous seven years whilst insecurity ravaged the North abruptly came to an end. Through communication, we can overcome this fabricated insecurity barrier. We are pleading with Buhari, the father of the country, to consider granting Kanu’s request.
