Disregard Calls For Nnamdi Kanu’s Release – Northern Groups To FG

• The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the federal government to ignore renewed calls for Nnamdi Kanu’s release
• The CNG says that the resurgence of agitations and disturbances in the South East are aimed at discrediting the government
• The CNG says that the federal authorities must remain steadfast in seeing through Kanu’s prosecution

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has urged the federal government to ignore renewed calls for Nnamdi Kanu’s release as leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

According to Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the CNG’s spokesman, this became necessary due to renewed attacks in the South East and the reinstatement of the Sit-at-home order.

CNG has carefully watched and studied the events and actions being perpetrated against the Nigerian state, against Nigerians collectively, and against northerners in particular, with considerable restraint and maturity.”

Of late however, with the brutal enforcement of a week-long illegal stay-at-home order that mostly affects other Nigerians living as minorities in Southeastern communities, and the renewed resolve by Igbo leaders and elders to secure the unconditional release of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, matters have reached a point whereby silence has become complicity and inaction no longer an option, the statement read.

It went on to say that the resurgence of agitations and disturbances that have been ongoing incessantly since the inception of President Tinubu’s current administration is aimed at discrediting the government after it failed to stop its emergence by receiving only 7% of the total votes cast in the entire South-East.

The Federal authorities must resist the Igbo campaign of blackmail using Kanu’s release as a precondition for lasting peace in the land, and to remain steadfast in seeing through his prosecution along with his sponsors, backers, and collaborators for the heinous crimes against the Nigerian state and innocent Nigerian citizens, so as not to set the wrong precedent of regional leaders interfering with the course of justice, the northern groups added.