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A group, All Igbo Youth Forum (AIYF) has asked the Federal Government to release the detained leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on or before September 20, 2025 or face a 10million-man march across the South East.
The group had declared in Umuahia that the only condition for securing the votes of the South-East for President Bola Tinubu in 2027 will be based on the release of the IPOB leader.
Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia on Tuesday, the National President of the group, Chief Chinedu Obilor said the All Progressives Congress (APC) would only woos Ndigbo to its side for the 2025 elections if it does the needful over Kanu.
He expressed worry over the continued detention of the Biafran agitator while some other agitators arrested for demanding for self-determination like Sunday Igboho of Oduduwa Republic and the so called repentant terrorists had since been released by the Federal Government.
He enjoined President Tinubu to see the release of the IPOB leader as a top priority, adding that it is the greatest need of Ndigbo.
Speaking on Tinubu’s reliance on Igbo leaders to deliver the zone for the APC in 2027 polls, Obilor argued that such reliance will backfire, insisting that “it will be hard for the ruling party to penetrate the zone if Kanu continues to languish in jail”.
According to him, eminent Igbo leaders including the late Chief Mbazurike Amaechi, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Professor Ben Nwabueze, among others made passionate appeals for Kanu’s release before they died, but the late Nigerian leader, Buhari refused to bulge.
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