The option of releasing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu on Wednesday suffered a set back, as President Muhammadu Buhari urged him to defend himself in court.
The President however did not rule out the possibility of a political resolution, he believes the IPOB leader must answer for his actions over the years, especially while he was out of the country.
President Buhari made this known in an exclusive interview with Channels Television aired on Wednesday. “Nigerians know that I don’t interfere with the judiciary, let him be listened to. For those who are saying that we should release him, no we cannot release him.
“There is a possibility of political solution; if people behave themselves, all well and good, but you can’t go to a foreign country and keep on sending incorrect economic and security problem against your country and thinking that you will never have to account for what you have been doing. Let him account for what he has been doing.”
“There is one institution that I wouldn’t dare interfere with – that is the judiciary,” he said. “Kanu’s case is with the judiciary, but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I never thought really he wants to voluntarily come and defend himself on the accusations.
“So, we are giving him an opportunity to defend himself in our system, not to be abusing us from Europe as if he was not a Nigerian. Let him come here to us and then criticise us here.”
