Jonathan to meet Tinubu over Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention – Sowore
Omoyele Sowore, on Friday, said former President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to engage President Bola Tinubu over the travails of Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in security custody, since August, 2021.
Sowore stated this after meeting with the former President in Abuja, where they discussed the continued incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu.
Sowore, a renowned human rights activist, and politician, while writing on his X handle, said former President Jonathan agreed that there is an urgent and compelling need to address this matter decisively and justly.
Sowore had in August 2018, founded the African Action Congress (AAC), a political party on whose platform he contested the presidential elections, both in 2019 and 2023 and lost to the incumbent President Bola Tinubu, in 2023.
Sowore expressed his gratitude to the former President for recognising the importance of resolving Kanu’s case in the interest of peace, fairness, and national healing.
According to him, “Particularly assuring was that he promised to meet @officialabat to discuss this issue as soon as possible.
“With this, former President Jonathan joins a growing list of Nigerians who have called for justice in Nnamdi Kanu’s case, a list that already includes ex Vice President @atiku, Femi Falana SAN, Senator @ShehuSani , and many others across political and regional divides.”
He said “Kanu remains in detention today because he took up the just cause of confronting the long-standing issue of marginalization in Nigeria.
“Like other ethnic and regional activists whose politically motivated cases have been withdrawn or dismissed, Nnamdi Kanu should also be released without further delay.”
He appealed to all political, cultural, ethnic, and religious leaders across Nigeria to join this noble cause.
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Recall that Nnamdi Kanu was arrested on June 27, 2021, allegedly with the help of the Interpol in Kenya, for prosecution in Nigeria, over alleged treasonable offences.
Interpol however denied involvement in his arrest in 2023.
Since then, he had remained in the custody of the federal government and appeared in courts several times, facing various charges.
Sowore who believes that Nnamdi Kanu should be set free, vowed that he “remain firmly committed to peacefully mobilising for justice and freedom in this matter.
“In particular, I invite my brothers and sisters from the South East @PeterObi, @CCSoludo , @alexottiofr , @FrancisNwifuru , @PeterMbah, @HopeUzodinma , @ObyEzekwesili , John Mbata of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, as well as Nigerians of conscience everywhere, to lend their voices to the call for justice and freedom.”
Sowore had in August 2018, founded the African Action Congress AAC, a on whose platform he contested the presidential election in the 2019 Nigeria, both in 2019 and 2023 and lost to the incumbent President Bola Tinubu .