, South East Zone, yesterday, joined other human rights
bodies in the call for the immediate release of the
leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, the Publicity Secretary of Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh and
the former National Security Adviser to President
Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).



Nnamdi-Kanu in court
…accuses FG of cracking down on Igbo leaders
By Nwabueze Okonkwo
ONITSHA—Campaign for Democracy, CD, South
East Zone, yesterday, joined other human rights
bodies in the call for the immediate release of the
leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, the Publicity Secretary of Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh and
the former National Security Adviser to President
Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).
In a statement in Onitsha, Anambra State, CD
also expressed concern that Buhari had formed
the habit of cracking down on Igbo leaders at any
slight provocation.
In the statement by its chairman in the zone,
Dede A. Uzor, CD recalled that Kanu was arrested
on October 17, 2015 and a court of competent
jurisdiction granted him bail, yet Buhari refused to
release him, just as he also refused to obey the
court order which granted Dasuki bail to travel
abroad for his medical check-up.
CD regretted that up till date, the duo are still
languishing in the dungeons of the Department of
Security Services, DSS, adding that Tuesday’s
arrest of Metuh was viewed as a clandestine
move to silence opposition.
The statement, therefore, gave Buhari a seven-
day ultimatum within which to release the above
named individuals from detention or else CD
would mobilize more than 70 million Ndigbo, both
home and in the Diaspora, to carry out a mass
protest against their continued detention.
The statement noted that CD was not against
arresting any corrupt public officers, but reminded
Buhari of the need to obey the sanctity of court
orders or rulings, which he swore to uphold,
adding that it was very dangerous when such
leaders like Buhari disobey court orders.
“Buhari should tell us how many All Progressives
Congress, APC, members he has arrested for
corrupt practices or does it mean that APC
members are all clean, including the former
President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who allegedly
spent over $16 billion on power sector reform
without anything to show for it?”