The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has requested the folks of the South-east and others in components of the South-South to withdraw their support for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the Nigerian authorities’s delay in itemizing Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal towards his conviction.
Mr Kanu is the convicted chief of IPOB, a bunch looking for an impartial state of Biafra, which it desires carved out of the South-east and components of South-South Nigeria.
He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism in November 2025 on the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The IPOB chief, who’s serving his jail time period in a jail facility in Sokoto State, filed an appeal towards his conviction and sentencing in February this yr.
But the listening to on the appeal has not begun, even after about eight months.
In a press release on Tuesday which was forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES, the spokesperson of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, mentioned South-easterners ought to reject the APC as a result of the federal authorities allegedly “deliberately” failed to hear Mr Kanu’s appeal.
“Biafrans must withdraw voluntary political support from the APC, boycott its rallies, refuse its insignia, and deny it community legitimacy,” Mr Powerful mentioned.
“Biafra” is a phrase usually utilized by the separatist group to refer to the
South-east and a few components of the South-South of Nigeria.
The group additionally makes use of the phrase “Biafrans” to refer to indigenes of the 2 areas.
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The IPOB spokesperson pressured within the assertion that the Nigerian authorities moved “swiftly” to convict Mr Kanu however failed to hear the IPOB chief’s appeal with the identical velocity.
“Any regime is preferable to the APC. Under another administration, the judiciary would no less than be free to listing and listen to all pending authorized circumstances in accordance to the rule of legislation, quite than being subverted into an instrument of government terror.
“Rather than facing judicial scrutiny before the Court of Appeal, the state has deliberately left the case unlisted,” he claimed.
Mr Powerful maintained that the federal authorities intentionally left the appeal unlisted by its failure to file its respondent’s transient.
“Our position is unequivocal: we will not lend our participation, support, or political legitimacy to a party whose government fears facing our leader’s appeal,” he mentioned.
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