Dele Momodu backs calls for Nnamdi Kanu’s release

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Media entrepreneur and publisher of Ovation International, Dele Momodu, has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

In a post shared on his X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, the former presidential candidate urged the government to address the underlying causes of separatist agitation in the South-East.

Momodu’s statement was accompanied by a clip of one of Kanu’s broadcasts recorded shortly before his repatriation from Kenya by Nigerian security agents.

He said the agitation for Biafra was deeply rooted in what he described as “decades of marginalisation and deprivation” suffered by the Igbo people.

“Shortly before his abduction from Kenya by the Nigerian government, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made this thought-provoking broadcast in which he philosophised about the reasons he and his supporters became radicalised,” Momodu wrote.

He faulted those who condemned Kanu and his followers without, in his view, understanding the historical and political context of their agitation.

“I have taken time to listen to his critics and discovered most of them only jumped to conclusions without proper analysis of why agitation for Biafra became reignited, attractive, and fanciful after the pogrom that wasted millions of lives and destroyed unimaginable properties in the 1960s and ’70s,” he said. Punch