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Charles Soludo Reveals How He Facilitated Nnamdi Kanu’s Release from Prison
- Nnamdi Kanu is being held at the Department of State Services, DSS.
Ekohotblog reports that Professor Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate for November 6, 2021, has revealed that when he learned that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was in Kuje prison in 2016, he addressed an international press conference to demand his release.
Kanu was freed from Kuje jail four weeks after his press speech, according to Soludo.
Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo
This was expressed by the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday during the Anambra governorship election discussion hosted by Arise TV.
According to Soludo: “2016, 2017 I am on record speaking I did say Nnamdi Kanu, I didn’t know him, I never heard of him, IPOB. But when I heard, he was in Kuje prison and the court ordered to release him and the court judgement to release him and they refused. I networked with other prominent Igbos to go to Kuje and dialogue with him and I addressed the international press conference to ask for his release and thereafter, people started to visit Kuje and three, four weeks later, he was released.
“I may not agree with him with his view of terms of destinations or even the means, but i believe in a democracy you put everything on the table the south-east leaders, religious, the bishops, the traditional rulers the youths all the groups we are now working on a consensus that we need to dialogue on this to have a solution.”
Meanwhile, Kanu is being held at the Department of State Services, DSS.
The IPOB leader was remanded in DSS detention by Justice Binta Nyako till November 10.
Kanu was arrested by the federal government of Nigeria in 2017, but Nayko of an Abuja Federal High Court granted him bail.
Kanu, on the other hand, escaped bail and departed Nigeria.
He said that he escaped owing to an assassination attempt by the Nigerian Army.
However, Kanu was rearrested in July in Kenya and repatriated to Nigeria to continue his trial.
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