Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday volunteered to stand surety for the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, if the federal government was willing to grant his release.
The IPOB leader, who had previously jumped bail before he was brought back to Nigeria from Kenya, has been in custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) since 2021 on allegation to treasonable felony.
Speaking during the kickoff of the campaigns of the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) for this year’s general elections at Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka, Anambra State capital, Soludo appealed for Kanu’s unconditional release.
He said: “I am making a passionate appeal to the Federal Government to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally. If he cannot be released unconditionally, I want him bereleased to me and I will stand surety for him”
“We need Nnamdi Kanu in the roundtable conversation to discuss the insecurity in the South East. We must end insecurity in the South East and we need Nnamdi Kanu to be around.”
He promised to cater for Kanu if he was released to him, assuring that he would make him available whenever the authorities required him to do so.
Kanu was first arraigned on December 23, 2015, and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017.
He fled the country in September 2017 following an invasion of his house by the military in his Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia country home in Abia State.
He was re-arrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria and has been facing trial since then.
