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By Chinonso Alozie
Senator Samuel Anyanwu on Sunday called on Igbo leaders not to turn their backs on the arrested leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Anyanwu made the appeal on Sunday in Owerri, as he spoke to reporters on the arrest and detention of IPOB leader Kanu.
The senator who represented the senatorial district of Imo East, said Igbo leaders should learn from the Yoruba who opposed the arrest and planned extradition of one of their own, Sunday Igboho, from the Republic of Benin to Nigeria.
Anyanwu insisted on Kanu, still innocent until his conviction by a competent court.
He said: “Despite the arrest of the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who has been described as controversial, Mazi Kanu remains innocent of all the allegations against him until a competent court of higher court proves the contrary.
“I called on the Igbo leaders not to hesitate to identify with him, saying that so far no court in the country has found him guilty of any offense and, as such, should not to be abandoned.
“We therefore urged the Igbo to follow the same line of action that the Yoruba rulers have taken to defend their own, Mr. Sunday Igboho, the arrest of Mazi Kanu should not scare anyone to speak out against the marginalization of the area by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). ”
He was of the opinion that “when the Igbo begin to abandon theirs to go to prison, strangers will come in to give them respect. All hands must be on the bridge, whatever their political affiliations, to ensure the speedy release of one of our own. As an Igbo man, we cannot deny that even though he is convicted.
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