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The South-East Governors Forum has concluded plans to visit President Bola Tinubu and interface with the Federal Government to secure the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The governors made the resolution at their meeting in Enugu yesterday.
The five South-East governors in attendance were Peter Mbah (Enugu); Alex Otti (Abia); Prof Charles Soludo (Anambra); Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi) and Senator Hope Uzodimma (Imo).
In a five-point communique, jointly signed by all the governors, the forum mulled the implementation of the report of the South-East Security and Economic Summit held in Owerri in September last year.
The communique reads in part: “The Forum resolved to visit Mr. President to discuss pressing issues concerning the South-East region.
“The Forum also resolved to interface with the Federal Government to secure the release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
“The Forum received the delegation of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR), Chief Emeka Anyaoku (GCON) and His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe (CFR), Obi of Onitsha who came on a solidarity visit to the Forum."
The Federal Government, under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, arrested Kanu in 2015 over his agitation for the secession of the Igbo from Nigeria.
The government is prosecuting Kanu for treason and he has been in detention since 2015.
He was released on bail in 2017 and fled the country during an invasion of his home in Umuahia by the military.
Kanu was rearrested in Kenya in 2021 and has since been in the detention facility of the Department of State Services as the court has yet to grant him bail again.
