By Deborah Onyofufeke
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, submitted a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, where he asked for an order for his immediate release.
The petition, was sent through the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to President Buhari.
Kanu, in the petition, signed by his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, requested President Buhari to direct his unconstitutional release from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, through a more productive political solution
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“You can do this by instructing the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation to wield his powers under section 174 of the 1999 Constitution to enter a ‘nolle prosequi’.
“This will immediately halt the present restlessness and sit-at-home mantra currently ravaging the South East and paralyzing business and normal life”, Kanu stated in the petition.
