The Ayo Adebanjo-led Afenifere, a leading Yoruba socio-political organisation, has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately order the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), describing him as a political detainee.
In a communiqué signed by its Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, after a meeting at the Isanya Ogbo residence of its leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the group said Kanu’s continued detention is unjustifiable and urged the president to take swift action.
“From all circumstances, particularly since his abduction in 2021 and rendition to Nigeria and since then subjected to controversial and conflicting legal proceedings in different courts by which his fair trial may no longer be guaranteed in the opinion of reasonable members of the public, it is clear that Nnamdi Kanu is indubitably a political detainee,” the communiqué stated.