I DIDN’T DISCUSS NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE WITH SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS – OBASANJO

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I DIDN’T DISCUSS NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE WITH SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS – OBASANJO

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has clarified that the issue of releasing Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was not part of the discussions he had with the South-East governors in Enugu, Enugu State, on Tuesday.

In a statement released by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo stated that while he and former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, met with the governors to discuss regional development issues, the purported planned release of Kanu by the Federal Government was not on the agenda.

The statement read, “The regional development issues discussed include that of security and infrastructure. Others were economic and cooperative/collaboration, which was meant to complement the national economic development agenda.

The meeting with them was at my invitation and of Chief Emeka Anyaoku before their summit begins. The issue of Nnamdi Kanu was not on the agenda and was not discussed in my presence.”

This clarification comes after it was reported that the South-East Governors Forum had resolved to visit President Bola Tinubu and interface with the Federal Government to secure the release of the detained IPOB leader.

The governors made this resolution during their meeting in Enugu on Tuesday, which was attended by all five South-East governors: Peter Mbah (Enugu), Alex Otti (Abia), Prof. Charles Soludo (Anambra), Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi), and Senator Hope Uzodimma (Imo).

In a five-point communique signed by the governors, the forum expressed grief over the death of a former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and the first civilian governor of Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu.The forum also resolved to activate actionable plans to implement the report of the South-East Security and Economic Summit held in Owerri in September last year, and to visit the President to discuss pressing issues concerning the South-East region.

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