Former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has declared that the Igbo nation is now left with no other option than to place Nnamdi Kanu’s fate squarely on the desk of President Bola Tinubu. “We ask the Igbo nation and other lovers of Nigeria to remain calm, pray and not take the law in their hands.”
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday on terrorism charges.
Reacting through a statement by his Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom, the Senator said that the life jail handed down to Kanu was not surprising to the Igbo nation and other right thinking Nigerians.
Abaribe said that at the time the Federal Government refused to factor in pleadings to extend the amnesty to Nnamdi Kanu as done to some others, we knew that today’s outcome was imminent.’
“Is it not an irony that negotiations and peace deals with rampaging terrorists in the North East, North West were gleefully initiated by the localgovernment councils, states and the Federal Government.”
“So we are not surprised, our people can only endure and hope.
We have done our best , we have variously made case to the authorities to be circumspect and at least accede to pardon for the sake of unity and inclusiveness,” the lawmaker said.
