Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has denied discussing the release of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, with South-east governors on Tuesday.
Governors under the umbrella of the South-East Governors’ Forum, resolved to meet with President Bola Tinubu on Kanu.
Chairman of the forum and Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, revealed a planned “engagement” with the Federal Government on the IPOB leader as one of the resolutions reached at the meeting which held in Enugu.
Obasanjo, in the company of former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku, had paid a visit to the governors forum.
In a statement issued through Kehinde Akinyemi, his special assistant on media affairs, Obasanjo said the meeting he held with the governors revolved around “regional development issues” and no agenda on Kanu was discussed.
“The regional development issues include that of security and infrastructure. Others were economic and cooperative/collaboration, which was meant to complement the national economic development agenda,” the statement reads.
“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,” Obasanjo was quoted as saying.
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since his extradition to Nigeria in 2021. He is standing trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony and was denied bail in May.
