PRESIDENT TINUBU, IF YOUR PROXY WAR AGAINST NDIGBO REQUIRES MAZI NNAMDI KANU’S DEATH, THEN KILL HIM OPENLY AND RETURN HIS BODY TO US
Okey Anyanwu
What is unfolding under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s watch is not governance. It is not justice. It is not even prosecution. It is a slow, choreographed persecution. It is a continuation of a long and ugly history of hostility toward Ndi Igbo, masked behind the robes of a judiciary that has become the executive’s loudest whisper and its most obedient dagger.
Watching the witch-hunt, the institutional bullying, and the judicial suppuration directed at Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through the compliant hands of Justice Omotosho violently reminds one of Tinubu’s long and familiar disdain toward the Igbo nation. From his days as governor of Lagos State until now, his record is embroidered with patterns of exclusion, intimidation, demolition, deceit, and strategic suffocation of Igbo aspirations.
He inherited this case from the Buhari regime, but he has transformed it into a personal crusade, a proxy war, a theatre of humiliation targeted at an entire people. The latest judgment delivered by Justice Omotosho did not merely expose the judiciary. It stripped it of its last garment of credibility. It revealed a system where justice no longer stands blind but now bends eagerly toward the wishes of the executive, issuing verdicts that resemble roadside point and kill rather than constitutional adjudication.
Omotosho did not deliver a judicial decision. He delivered a political script. And unlike the usual practice where judgments circulate in the hands of akara sellers and iru hawkers before the court pronounces them, this one was already predicted by every observer who understands the anatomy of state-sponsored persecution.
Let the truth be said without hesitation. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not being punished for anything he said or did. He is being punished because of a historical, familial, and political contempt that Tinubu and his household have nursed toward Ndi Igbo for decades. The past utterances of Senator Oluremi Tinubu remain a revealing window into that hostility, a sentiment that now finds full expression as official policy.
The stealthy relocation of Kanu to Sokoto is not an administrative act. It is a coded message. It is a strategic maneuver. It is an ominous prelude.
Every respected Igbo leader from traditional rulers to political elders and clerics has pleaded with the President to release Nnamdi Kanu. Tinubu behaved as though he heard nothing. As though he knew nothing. As though the rising tension, the cries of mothers, the accumulating resentment of a pushed and wounded people were air passing by his ears.
I, Okey Anyanwu, refuse to join in the begging.
Instead, I will state plainly what the conduct of this administration already implies. If you have resolved that Nnamdi Kanu must die in order to perfect this proxy war against Ndi Igbo, then kill him openly and return his body to us. Do not hide behind midnight transfers. Do not hide behind orchestrated poisoning. Do not hide behind a choreographed jailbreak. Do not hide under the cloak of Sokoto. If you must kill him, do it in the open since your hatred no longer hides.
But reflect on this unchanging truth. The person who occupies Aso Rock today does not determine who occupies it tomorrow. The individual who will sit there after you whether you install him, impose him or script his path may not inherit your animosities or continue your vendettas.
Also reflect on this reality. Neither you nor your household is insulated from accountability. Your US forfeiture matter, your certificate controversies, your contract irregularities and your many political manipulations remain unresolved chapters that history may reopen when the pendulum of power swings in its inevitable direction.
Power never sits still. Power never forgets. Aso Rock is not a crown. It is a pendulum that swings as truth dictates. It always returns to where justice calls.
Okey Anyanwu
Assistant Secretary
Anti Atiku Narrative Counter Committee.
