The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has on Friday, expressed optimism about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s release as President Tinubu plans to visit Enugu state today to commission projects executed by the administration of Governor Peter Mbah.
The group is excited about the attitudinal changes that the federal government has begun to exhibit towards the Igbo and believes that Bola Tinubu will etch his name with gold in the heart of the Igbos if he finally yields to the plea of ordering the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra who has been in detention since 27 June 2021.
The Secretary to the Enugu State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia in a statement on Friday disclosed that President Tinubu will embark on a one-day visit to the state on Saturday (today) to commission some of the projects that the present administration has executed.
Reacting to the planned visitation, the Ohanaeze, expressed great delight in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, describing the gesture of the federal government as a “gradual attitudinal change” that gears toward eliminating the prolonged and perpetual existential threats meted out on the Igbos, such as orchestrated marginalisation, relative deprivations, and external instigation of insecurity, conflagrations and crises.
The statement read in part, “Ohanaeze Ndigbo expresses immense delight over the gradual attitudinal change of the Federal Government towards the Igbo. Ohanaeze has insisted that national peace, unity, patriotism and sustainable economic development of any country are the outcomes, effects or products of equity, and social justice.
“In other words, there is hardly any society or group that can be complacent under severe existential threats such as orchestrated marginalisation, relative deprivations, and external instigation of insecurity, conflagrations and crises.
“It is therefore hoped that with the Enugu visit, President Tinubu will write his name with gold in the hearts of Ndigbo and all the well-meaning Nigerians if he orders for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
