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By Zika Bobby
United Stated-based lawyer, High Chief Owolabi Salis has made a strong case for the release of the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The Ikorodu-born Lagosian who in 2019 contested for governorship on the platform of Alliance For Democracy, said there is an urgent need to release the IPOB leader, as he has been held in preventive detention for excessively too long.
“Remember that the embattled young man had languished in detention since 2015, during which he had been in and out of hospital due to his health, which had been gravely imperiled.More-over, there had been injunctions from the court,ruling that he should be released.I am therefore of the strong opinion that Kanu should not be held a minute longer,but rather be released immediately without delay in the interest of justice,said the Lawyer-Politican.
“Politicaly, by releasing Kanu, Tinubu would further be endearing the general mass of the Igbos not only to himself, but his administration, with the immensely unifying and integrative effect for national growth,peace and stability,just as the presidential Prerogative of Mercy would also go a long way in availing the much-needed balm to erase the hitherto lingering wound of the Biafran experience.”
“The gesture would also be in keeping with the genetic and culturally endemic passion of the yorubas for fairness and justice and their historical antecedents as the earliest race to embrace western education and its associated system of Western liberal democracy and belief in the rule of law”
“It will also align with your antecedents as a NADECO activist during the harrowing era of military despotism,and your unflagging pursuit of the rule of law, especially through the several legal litigations initiated by you against the prevailing powers of the moment in the pursuit of social justice,during your years as Governor of Lagos State and your post-governorship years as the Arrowhead of the progressives and the forces of political opposition.” Salis appealed to Tinubu.
While enjoining the government and the general citizens of the nation to shun every vestige of prejudice which possibly might be harboured against the Ibos,and rather accept them as fellow brethren in the drive towards a greater Nigeria,he also admonished the Igbos on the other hand, to shed every toga of Biafran separatism for the collectively encompassing vision of national unity.
“Our Igbo brethren should rather harness the immensely God-given potentials for which they are popularly known towards the Noble task of lifting the nation to a higher paradigm of growth and progress,” he said.
