President Muhammadu Buhari has defied the aged Igbo elders plea to release Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the indegenous people of Biafra.
Buhari said he can’t release Nnamdi Kanu from the DSS detention that he (Kanu) should defend himself in court, if he is ready to be free.
Buhari said Nnamdi Kanu has shared false information about his regime and he should face the law.
Muhammadu Buhari said this while being interviewed on Channels television on Wednesday December 5th.
The aged Igbo Elders led by former Minister of Aviation in the First Republic, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, had visited the President on November 19, 2021 to demand for the release of the leader of IPOB, to restore peace in the southeast Nigeria.
Buhari who gave them hope saying that he will consider Thier demand “but a heavy one” while speaking on Wednesday said he cannot interfare with Judiciary.
“There is one institution that I wouldn’t interfere with, that is judiciary, Kanu’s case is with the judiciary but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe, abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I thought he wants to come and defend himself on the accusations.
“So, we are giving him an opportunity to defend himself in our system, not to be abusing us from Europe as if he was not a Nigerian. Let him come here with us and then criticise us here. Nigerians know that I don’t interfere with the judiciary, let him be listened to. But those who are saying that he should be released, no, we cannot release him.”
When asked about the possibility for political solution, Buhari said, “There is a possibility of political solution. If people behave themselves, all well and good but you can’t go to a foreign country and keep on sending incorrect economic and security problems against our country and thinking that you would not account for what you have been doing. Let him account for what he has been doing.”
