Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as first acid test for Justice Kekere-ekun, says Obidigbo

WHAT becomes of the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will indicate how determined the current Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-ekun, is to walk her talk about upholding the rule of law and ensuring that the cause of justice is served.

According to elder statesman and President of Osisioma Foundation, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, who made the assertion in a statement to journalists, weekend, it is unbecoming that a citizen should be held as a prisoner of conscience under a democratic dispensation.

He said that Kanu’s case sticks out like a sore thumb that continues to foul Nigeria’s reputation in the comity of civilised nations, adding that the back and forth that trailed the IPOB leader’s forceful rendition from Kenya leaves the impression that his incarceration is meant to serve a dark political purpose.

Obidigbo disclosed that as Nigerians got ready to celebrate its 64th independence anniversary, he expected that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu would be let off the hook as a gesture of national renewal.

He regretted that President Ahmed Bola Tinubu lost a golden opportunity to initiate the process of uniting the country and healing the union after a bitter and divisive general election by failing to make a statement about the fate of the unjustly incarcerated IPOB leader.

“Most of the time when Presidents undertake a national broadcast, the usual expectation of citizens is that the President would use the unique opportunity of public communication to address pressing issues in the polity.

“At the point where President Tinubu talked about the security situation in the country, he disclosed how the nation’s military has been recording successes through a combination of kinetic and non-kinetic means. One expected that a word about the only prisoner of conscience in the country would come up as part of the plans to reduce anxiety in the system.

“Whether the Presidency understands the relationship between political peace and economic progress, the Nnamdi Kanu issue remains a sad juncture in the continuing efforts at nation building,” Obidigbo stated.

The elder statesman asserted that President Tinubu’s failure to speak about the IPOB leader’s travails buttresses suggestions in many quarters that holding Nnamdi Kanu is a political trump card by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He stated: “Former President Muhammadu Buhari spared no cost to ensure that the IPOB leader was kidnapped and forcefully renditioned from Kenya back to Nigeria in the guise of bringing him to stand trial in court.

“But, reports from the court sessions showed that the trial was a mere cover for political intrigues by Buhari, who never hid his aversion and disdain for NdIgbo. Never before in the history of this country have the Supreme Court’s ruling been subjected to the interpretation or review by a court below.

“The ruse of sending the case file back to the Federal High Court after the apex court had identified Kanu’s forceful rendition as a barrier against his further trial became a ready excuse for extrajudicial imprisonment.

“This injustice is unbecoming of a democratic nation. Kanu’s offence was calling for a referendum to determine and underscore Nigeria’s willingness to live together and whether the union is a willing one or a forced one as dictated by the British colonists with zero input from the natives.”
Obidigbo said the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu despite pleas from well meaning Igbo elders and friends, appears to be deliberate attacks on the Igbo to keep stoking social unrest that would give anarchist opportunities to continue to unleash mayhem on the Southeast.

However, he expressed optimism that the coming of another woman as CJN would help to extricate political intrigues from the manipulation of the law against the IPOB leader.

“I was relieved to hear the new CJN assure that under her watch the nation’s judiciary would bounce back as the bastion of justice that Nigerians can proudly behold. Although she pointed out that improving the Judiciary is a collective responsibility, the CJN maintained that a better Judiciary benefits the entire nation.

“That is why I believe that the Nnamdi Kanu’s case will present the first acid test for the Chief Justice, because it would be clear whether politicians will continue to use the case as a pawn in their power game or the young man should be allowed his freedom instead of suffering double injustice from forced rendition and unclear judicial procedure,” he noted.

Source : https://tribuneonlineng.com/nnamdi-kanus-case-first-acid-test-for-cjn-kekere-ekun-obidigbo/

Do u expect a magic ?

Kanu is a prisoner of his own making

Let's see

As usual na to shift blame
Na buhari
Na DSS
Na this
Na that.

Wetin concern kekere ekun

Let's Watch How It Goes

I stand for justice

Acid or

No difference

Nobody should gaslighting new CJN Nnamdi Kanu will die in the prison

Kanu should be freed

Not only acid test na chocolate test.

Na Kekere Ekun jail him? Obidigbo deeh biko you talks too much.

Kanu is going nowhere dem no born Kekerewhatever to free him.

He will rot in jail and heaven will not fall

Funny people
Na kekere ekun jail am arbi... Kanu wey no sabi escape, buhari showed him shege, home and away....

What does this man stand to gain by trying to gaslight those who don't care what he thinks?

Kanu is a menace to a civilised society so he needs some time off in a cooler.

Nnamdi kanu is like amoeba.

His case is shapeless and beyond the comprehension of Nigeria corrupt judges.

Abeg park ho one side

He will rot in jail.

Nnamdi cownu will die in prison for all the innocent lives the bastard, terrorist and animal caused to die.

Rest in Peace Miracle Nwobodo 🙏

If you wanna be unfortunate in life,
Quote this comment to say nonsense and watch your life become miserable before Xmas.

Ekpa and nnamdi Cownu will not end well in life.
Bitter and brutal deaths await the both for all the innocent lives they cause to die.....not forgetting their terrorist brothers Boko Haram.
Deaths to all terrorists disturbing the peace of our darling nation.
More brutal deaths to all the online swines and cannibals supporting them.
(If you support terrorists, quote this post now,
Let Nairalanders know you!)
Anuofias.

babatunx:
When the security agencies start dealing with these terrorists now, people will start complaining.

Before you start defending these IPOB terrorists, just imagine the emotional trauma these deaths have caused the people connected to, or economically relied on them

May they find rest.

As for the UGM, this is only a debt. You will pay!!!

They will and must surely pay.
They will not escape this.
We will read about their deaths before 7 days.

wisman1:
These people also have families for God sake, they just made someone a widow and some children fatherless

Cownu will never end well in life.
The idiot elder sister is still in the Police Force as we type, she has not been killed.
And Cownu is ordering his illiterate and foolish boys to kill all policemen and soldiers in the East,
They murderered our relative Miracle Nwobodo, a shining star.
Anyone supporting this evil will never see the end of this year.
As long as God lives.



Miracle Nwobodo and all the innocent girls beheaded and used for rituals, and all innocent souls murdered,
Your God is fighting your battles.
This is only the beginning.

Miracle, May devil and Amadioha destroy the lives of your assassins that also killed multitude of innocent igbos.
Same fate goes to every imbe that quote this post to say rubbish.
Your mothers will cry on your Graves just the way our relative Miracle Nwobodo mother cried on her grave refusing to be consoled just few months ago.
Amadioha will strike yall down with full force before 21 days.
As long as God lives.
Y'all can never escape the consequences of your evil, wicked and devilish acts.

Nnamdi Kanu is a political prisoner and he will be released soon.

COMRADES, Kekerekun is not a woman of integrity

Tinumbu wey don Craze!

The elders wey go talk say Kanu should be released are still far from being an elder

This injustice is unbecoming of a democratic nation. Kanu’s offence was calling for a referendum to determine and underscore Nigeria’s willingness to live together and whether the union is a willing one or a forced one as dictated by the British colonists with zero input from the natives.”

Keep shut old liar.
That is not his offence,
Y'all know the bastard offence.

post=132317982:
He will rot in jail

He is better off in the 'zoo' prison

Praktikals1000:

He is better off in the 'zoo' prison

He's gonna die there.
Like the others the animal caused to die.

Okoyeeboz:
Is this not the Justice that those uncultured Ipobis were insulting?

They don't call them headless mobs for nothing.