OHANEZE NDIGBO newly-elected President-GeneralChief Nnia Nwodo has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.
The body advised against holding on to the legalities of the question which, the judicial struggle, it maintained would take a long time with its attendant political consequences.
He made this disclosure while addressing a press conference in Enugu after the maiden meeting of the National Executive Committee, the newly elected President-General, Chief Nnia Nwodo said, “as father of Nnamdi Kanu and father of Ndigbo, I am asking the President to seek a political solution, and I am prepared to discuss it.
“Naturally, if your son is incarcerated, you cannot but ask for his release. I am asking for a political solution to Kanu’s issue.
“The people in MASSOB and IPOB are my children; there is no way I can abandon my child either for his misdemeanour or for the fact that he is disparaged by others. Right or wrong, these children are my children. Because they are my children, I have to call them back; in fact, I can announce to you that this committee has decided to have a meeting with the leadership of IPOB and MASSOB, and we are going to do so shortly.
“There is no way you can have a son who is sweating out there in the sun, labouring hard to make a point and you just leave him on his own without advising him. And you know, this son is motivated by his anger about what he is seeing happening to us.
“I have seen the war, I know the war; a young man who has not seen it will hunger for it out of rage and anger of his marginalization and his subjection to second class citizenship. These boys are angry …but because of age and experience, I cannot be angry the same way. So, when I say they are my children, it means I understand why they are angry even when I don’t agree with their method.
“We want to bring them back as fathers and dialogue with the Federal Government. There are certain undertakings we are prepared to take so that this warfare doesn’t continue. And those undertakings will ensure that the reasons that made them go out to war are no longer there.”
Nwodo expressed regrets that under the current Federal Government, Igbo representation is abysmal and falls short of the constitutional provisions for the reflection of federal character in the appointment into important government positions.
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