Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), said on Saturday that the world is waiting for the governors and other leaders in southeastern Nigeria to advance a political solution that could secure Kanu’s release.
Kanu is currently serving a life sentence at the Sokoto Custodial Centre after a judgment by the Abuja Federal High Court. The court, presided over by Justice James Omotosho, found him guilty of crimes committed during his agitation for Biafra.
Following the life sentence, some southeastern leaders have called for a political resolution to obtain Kanu’s release. However, Ejimakor stressed that Kanu has always insisted any dialogue must come from a position of honour and good faith.
In a signed statement, Ejimakor said it is the government’s responsibility to create a conducive environment for such a solution. He added that “any political solution must be holistic and bear the basic elements of sincerity and dignity.”
“Lessons were learned in September 2017 when political solution was bankable, but the government frustrated it by resorting to Python Dance. Thus, a political solution can never emanate from bended knees, but should proceed as the standard and inevitable conclusion to every agitation or conflict. Every political conflict ends around a table. Colonialism, apartheid, war, unjust political imprisonments, tensions between nations always ended around a table.”
Ejimakor concluded that the world is awaiting progress from southeastern leaders, particularly governors, on the political solution they initiated in June of this year.
<small>Source: Daily Post Nigeria — read the original story there.</small>
