Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he didn’t discuss release of detained Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) with the South East governors in Enugu, Enugu State, on Tuesday.
According to him, he and a former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, had a meeting with the governors but regional development issues topped the discussion and not Kanu’s release.
The former President disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi.
“The regional development issues discussed include that of security and infrastructure. Others were economic and cooperative/collaboration, which was meant to complement the national economic development agenda,” the statement said.
“The meeting with them was at my invitation and of Chief Emeka Anyaoku before their summit begins. The issue of Nnamdi Kanu was not on the agenda and was not discussed in my presence,” the statement added.
D’Gallery gathered that the South-East Governors Forum had resolved to visit President Bola Tinubu to interface with the Federal Government with a view to securing the release of the detained IPOB leader.
The meeting, which lasted about six hours, had in attendance all the five South-East governors: Peter Mbah (Enugu); Alex Otti (Abia); Prof Charles Soludo (Anambra); Francis Nwifuru (Ebonyi) and Senator Hope Uzodimma (Imo).
