Grant Kanu Prerogative Of Mercy – ASITU Urges FG

Count down to the proposed visit of the South Eastern governors and other Igbo leaders, to President Bola Tinubu, over the security situation in the zone.

The National President of Association of Igbo Town Unions (ASITU), Chief Emeka Diwe, has urged the President to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by invoking the prerogative of mercy, as enshrined in the constitution.

Kanu’s case is expected to top discussions at the upcoming meeting between South East governors and other Igbo stakeholders and the Presidency.

Leaders of the region had, at a meeting in Abuja, on July 10, resolved that a high-powered Igbo delegation will meet the Presidency, to discuss on the immediate and remote causes, as well as the viable solutions to insecurity in the South East.

Chief Diwe stressed that Kanu’s release was long overdue and should be based purely on political exigency.

He noted that the federal government had appealed the judgement freeing Kanu and urged the government to display magnanimity by releasing him on the ground of mercy, so as to restore peace and tranquility in the southeast.

The ASITU leader said Tinubu would only be showing that he is a democrat if he releases Kanu and urged him, “to go and sin no more”.

The South East Governors’ Forum (SEGF), in Enugu, unanimously absolved the IPOB leader of being responsible for the insecurity in the southeast region.