Omoyele Sowore, the Sahara Reporters publisher, has alleged that the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), had shown conspiracy against Ndigbo, noting that he had expected Tinubu to free the detained freedom fighter immediately he assumed office.
Sowore made this known in a recent interview with Rudolf Okonkwo on 90 Minutes Africa.
The activist-cum-politician said he had expected that Tinubu‘s first act in office would be to release Kanu from detention, concluding that the incarceration of the IPOB leader reflects a deep-seated problem with the Igbo by the Nigerian state.
He further argued that Kanu is a casualty of the post-civil war marginalisation of the people of the South-East extraction.
“Nigeria has an Igbo problem. It’s like when a father is dying, they will tell their children, I have a problem with Igbo people; please continue from there,” he said.
The publisher stressed that he’s disappointed that the President Bola Tinubu -led administration hasn’t deemed it fit to grant Kanu freedom, alleging a conspiracy behind his detention.
“I expected that the first act of Tinubu in office would have been to release Nnamdi Kanu. But the fact that it got worse shows that there is a kind of conspiracy going on.
“I also know that there are some Igbo elite who are complicit in his detention because there was a time when there were discussions about his release, and they said it should hold on until after the election.
“And now, after the election, the devil seems to have intervened more strongly,”he added.
