I Have Started Political Dialogue With Buhari To Release IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu – Umahi

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi on Tuesday revealed that talks are ongoing with President Muhammadu Buhari to find a political solution to the detention of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

This is as he assured the Igbo people that Nnamdi Kanu has not been abandoned and will soon regain his freedom.

Umahi also stated that it is time to put an end to the sit-at-homes, pointing out that those clamouring for the lockdown of the southeast region are not even in Nigeria so are not affected by the killings and economic challenges posed by the sit-at-home order.

He appealed to the people of the region to embrace peace and dialogue, assuring once again that the IPOB leader will soon be released from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

“Why do we still have unknown gunmen in Southeast? This is not the first time it is happening in Igboland. There was a time, it was so terrible in Abia, Abia state, in Onitsha and so many other places, and Igbo man knows what to do.

“We are coming to that point, businesses are moving away from Aligbo, for what? I have gone to President Muhammadu Buhari and initiated a political dialogue over our brother Nnamdi Kanu. And that process is on. And I don’t see any reason why we should be killing ourselves. Fighting our people, making sure that the economy of the south-east is down.

“Some of these people that initiated this sit-at-home are outside the country. They can never do sit-at-home one day there because they work twenty-four hours. And if they do, hunger will kill them” he said.

The Ebonyi State governor stated that the political and economic damages coming to the Igbos as a result of the killings and activities of criminals in the region must be curbed immediately and the people need to take their own destiny in their hands to make it happen.