The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has demanded the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
The separatist group also called for the 2023 presidency of Igbo extraction, saying, “MASSOB requests President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate and ensure that one of the many southeast presidential aspirants succeeds him in 2023 to help the country diffuse many bottled anger which has fuelled agitations”.
The statement which was signed by the group’s leader Uchenna Madu, reads, “As President Muhammadu Buhari visit Ebonyi state, MASSOB remind Mr president that only the release of IPOB leader will douse tension in the zone as well as restoring peaceful atmosphere to the entire country.
The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has demanded the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu from detention.
The separatist group also called for the 2023 presidency of Igbo extraction, saying, “MASSOB requests President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate and ensure that one of the many southeast presidential aspirants succeeds him in 2023 to help the country diffuse many bottled anger which has fuelled agitations”.
The statement which was signed by the group’s leader Uchenna Madu, reads, “As President Muhammadu Buhari visit Ebonyi state, MASSOB remind Mr president that only the release of IPOB leader will douse tension in the zone as well as restoring peaceful atmosphere to the entire country.
MASSOB will not be against the visit of President Buhari to Ebonyi state. We are making these two major demands as part of our own contribution to peace as being clamoured by well-meaning citizens.
“MASSOB request from President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate and ensure that one of the many southeast presidential aspirants succeeds him in 2023 to help the country diffuse many bottled anger which has fuelled agitations.
“MASSOB also reminds President Muhammadu Buhari that continuous detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in DSS custody will only worsen the security challenges facing the country, it will also continue to affect the economy.”
Independent