The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has told Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi that his claim that he initiated the move for the release of detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
The governor Umahi had recently promised Igbo leaders that the detained IPOB leader would soon be released following his intervention with President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, Ohanaeze in a press statement on Friday, the Ohanaeze Youth Council led by Igboayaka Igboayaka said the governor claim was false.
The Ohanaeze youths insisted that the political solution was initiated by the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor and other eminent Igbo sons.
“Governor David Umahi might be looking for a soft landing to appeal to Ndigbo and IPOB over reckless treatment coated with executive impunity as Ebonyi State Governor. And coming out suddenly to score a cheap political goal in the release of Nnamdi Kanu is very untrue and childish.
“Those at the helm of affairs of a political solution to Nnamdi Kanu’s case have not taken it to the media space, they are engaging in a lasting solution to the crisis that has erupted in the country for over seven years of IPOB’s struggle for self-determination. Unfortunately, on June 19, 2021, in Enugu State, the same Governor David Umahi chaired a meeting wherein IPOB was publicly rejected by those who claimed to be Igbo leaders.
“Governor David Umahi ought to know that all his discriminatory communique signed by him against Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are in our archive and in the book of remembrance. The claim by Ebonyi Governor of interfacing to release of Nnamdi Kanu at Abakaliki on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, has summarized the Igbo adage, “Nwoke luchaa ogu, nwanyi enwere akuko.”
“Therefore, Umahi should look for something else through which he can gain favour from Ndigbo and not to lay claims to glory of Kanu’s release process.
“I can authentically and authoritatively inform our people that every strategic and tactical effort has been made on the release of Nnamdi Kanu by Obiozor without any political interest but basically on his personal conviction as a true Igbo man and his constitutional duty as the number one citizen of the Igbo nation.
“I appeal to Igbo youths over the globe who may be provoked by Governor David Umahi’s self-glory to remain peaceful and calm and assist in finding a political solution to Nnamdi Kanu’s case by acting within the framework of the law,” OYC stated.
