Aloy Ejimakor, the Lead Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has urged President Bola Tinubu against inheriting the case of the agitator.
Ejimakor urged Tinubu to study Kanu’s case and determine if it’s politically motivated.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday, Ejimakor expressed hope that the IPOB leader might taste freedom under Tinubu’s administration.
The lead counsel also assured that Kanu will not jump bail if granted such by the Abuja Federal High Court.
Ejimakor said: “We have come to a level where the Federal Government led by President Bola Tinubu will look again at this case and see if it has any merit at all or if the case was politically motivated to the point that the present administration should not inherit it.
“When someone says I don’t want to belong to a country anymore, you don’t pursue him with bullets, prosecute or throw him in jail, instead try to talk to him; which is the more sensible thing to do than this law enforcement which is not going to be the solution.
“I wonder if this case is an inherited headache from the past government. This is an issue that began from the last administration, we don’t know if it was a personal fight between the previous government and Kanu.
“Policies of the previous government are not that of Tinubu, so we are optimistic that he will regain freedom. I was in court the order day and we were arguing the application for his bail. The judge wondered if he will honour the conditions if granted bail. I responded that he will because it was Buhari and his Army that chased him out of Nigeria and I don’t think Tinubu and his Army will chase him out too.
“It captured the sense that I think this administration should handle the case a bit more differently than the previous administration did.
“Under this administration, we have seen Sunday Igboho walk free. It was the previous government that pursued him to Benin Republic and he returned in peace, expressing himself as a free citizen under Tinubu.
“We also have a high profile case of Sowore. The man was imprisoned in Nigeria for five years and now his case has been discontinued by the Attorney General.
“So sometimes, you wonder what makes Kanu’s case unique? We don’t want to succumb to certain sentiments, but people are beginning to ask questions as to whether where Kanu hails from is part of the problem.”
