Punch
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has commended the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), for considering the demand for the release of detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that Buhari on Friday said he would consider the release of the IPOB leader when a delegation led by First Republican Parliamentarian and ex-Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazuluike Amaechi visited him at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
A statement on Saturday by the National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said Ohanaeze was particularly delighted that the President has shown empathy in the current Igbo travails by mulling a political option for the release of Kanu.
The statement read, “The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ambassador Professor George Obiozor has always maintained that the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu requires a political solution and that dialogue remains a veritable instrument for a functional democracy all over the world…
