NNAMDI KANU: A TRAGIC CAPTIVE OF THE NIGERIA STATE.
The melodrama in the court today at the trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is another eloquent demonstration of the fact that the political situation in Nigeria is turning from being messy to very ugly. It must be made abundantly clear to all who care to listen that Nnamdi Kanu has no more business in the Federal High Court trying him.
The court had shot itself in the leg long ago during Buhari’s regime and making it impossible to have a fair trial. Only a political solution will suffice and that political solution has become a bridge too far to cross and unless this bridge is quickly crossed, the judiciary, the last hope of the common man will be ridiculed and scandalized because of the lack of the political will to act when it still matters.
It is important to awaken our senses of rationality to the fact that the case is gathering not only storms but maelstrom and which momentum may result in a crisis of unimaginable estimation. Those stoking this crisis will have themselves to blame when the fire they started will begin to gut like Califonia wildfires that defies emergency solution. When pushing turn to shoving, the human spirit of resistance will be exorcized.
There is a deliberate ploy to provoke Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to vituperate as he did today in the court so that some political backstabbers on the back stage will have the opportunity to pass predetermined judgment against him behind the scenes to further demonize and reprobate his demeanor. At today’s count, Nnamdi Kanu have been brought before the court for at least 30 appearances since his extraordinary rendition from Kenya in 2017.
In the course of these numerous appearances before the court, his trial process had sometime been declared a nullity, he has once been discharged but not acquitted, and the Federal Government refused to let him go and preferred this countless court episodes whereby the court only succeeded in pigeonholing itself in the context of the judicial process. The entire trial has now been reduced to a joke and court jesting for kangaroo entertainment.
There was hope when the trial Judge took a bold step to stop the charade by recusing herself after Nnamdi Kanu’s team of lawyers accused her of bias. She later again took the file she rejected to force herself back in the trial. Now how can she be trusted again to handle a fair trial with the accusation still hanging on her neck of a certain hidden agenda to nail Mazi Nnamdi Kanu?
There is no gainsaying that Her Lordship, Binta Nyako have other interests inimical to the principles of fair trial demanded of her position. She must of necessity therefore surrender from the case as demanded by Nnamdi Kanu himself. She is forbidden by law and the judicial practice direction which she swears an oath to uphold at all times to further adjudicate in the trial process.
It is unfortunate that the institutionalization of injustice against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is gradually bringing out the beast in him to the utter dismay and embarrassment of the unjust and compromised system of adjudicators in the court. Nnamdi Kanu today accused the trial Judge of being unlearned in the Nigeria law with which she professes as Her Lordship. What a slap on the Lordship.
This is the dissonance they’ve been looking for in order to finally nail him. They know that provoking him will lionize such spontaneous assault from him so they can prepare the grounds of dealing with him. But this subterfuge is an old game which we all know. It is dead on arrival because the ultimate game to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has become a groundswell and has been unleashed nationwide. Igbo youths who have been egregiously provoked by the systemic injustice against them are ready to fight over Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Take this info to the bank. The Nigeria state have little choice today in the Nnamdi Kanu case.
The Igbo nation is prepared for the worst in the Nnamdi Kanu case. He’s no longer fighting alone. He carries with him the entire 60 million Igbo population both at home and in diaspora in the raging battle. Nnamdi Kanu has become the most expensive prisoner of conscience of the Nigeria state. Igbos will no longer accept his unjust incarceration and do nothing. Nnamdi Kanu is a freedom fighter and must be accorded the same respect as other freedom fighters before him. Sunday Igboho of Yoruba Nation, Ganiyu Adams of OPC, Alhaji Asari Dokubo of Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Bello Bodijo of Miyetti Allah, etal all walk around holding their heads high above their shoulders.
Igbos have begged enough for his release. Chief Engineer Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Professor Sunday Obiozor, Mbazuluike Amaechi, all our elder statesmen and all died on their knees begging for Nnamdi Kanu’s release. The Senate, National Assembly all passed resolutions demanding for his release. Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Southeast governors, various State Houses of Assembly in the Southeast have all passed resolutions demanding for his release.
Afenifere, Pandef, Middle Belt Forum, Olusegun Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, and other notable leaders across the country have all advocated for his release. There seems to be a general political agreement among the various multi-ethnic groups in this country advocating for freedom for Nnamdi Kanu. So, on who’s interest is he still being kept behind bars? The vox populi clearly favors a political solution to replace the ongoing judicial abracadabra.
We are therefore launching this passionate appeal to the President Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu to listen to the voice of the people by granting Nnamdi Kanu a Presidential pardon to end the embarrassment of the nation at the courts because the international community are watching what now appears a kangaroo process going on in the name of court trial. Let us stop exposing the country as one with no respect to the rule of law.
Releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will also open the door for badly needed national reconciliation with the Igbo nation to begin the moves to heal the nation and move the economy forward. The President should also take the bold steps to end the second Biafra war that was unilaterally levied against unsuspecting Igbos by General Muhammadu Buhari while on a revenge mission against the Igbo tribe in 2015.
The revenge tribal war started by Buhari had plummeted our GDP from over $3000 dollars in 2015 to a little above $1000 dollars in 2023 when he handed over the reigns of office to his successor. If the proxy wars against Igbos are not stopped, the economic distractions and disruptions may further strip our GDP and may now be heading for the canvass at $400 dollars by 2027. May God forbid a further trashing of our economy.
This nation needs peace in order to key into the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr President needed to fathom economic growth. Are we going to be explaining to over 200 million Nigerians that we lost it because of a needless proxy war?. His Excellency Sir, you have a century chance of opportunity to use your Executive Powers to end all promulgation of injustice in the country. May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Dr. Engr Odo Ijere
