Former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore has revealed that he’s setting aside his political differences with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice president Atiku Abubakar to push for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Sowore stated this on Friday.
He also opened up that he has reached out to Jonathan, Atiku and some southeastern political leaders about the planned protest.
Featuring on News Central’s Breakfast Central, the activist insisted that Kanu’s trial is a persecution and not prosecution.
He said: “We all know that one of the tenets of justice is speedy and fair trial and we all know that what happened in Kanu’s case was that there is no trial going on, its just theatrics.
“We as the people who understand, fought for and tried our best to human rights have a duty to let the country know that this sad development in our polity, we can’t pretend that Nnamdi Kanu is undergoing trial, this not trial, not prosecution but persecution.
“I made it known that I’m going to set aside my political differences with some people.
“It should be on record that this is only regarding the struggle for Nnamdi Kanu’s release, I have reached out to many people, I did reach out to Atiku through his aide that he should come on board. Presently, I’m surprised that it happened very fast.
“I reached out to eastern political leaders first like governors of Anambra, Abia, Peter Obi and none have responded until Atiku, I reached out to Abaribe but he has not publicly confirmed his intent to join.
“I’m going to reach out to more people, I’m going to reach out to Goodluck Jonathan so he would take a position on this. So I don’t think that anybody should take this as a political opportunity as they are trying to present it.”
