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| Edo State Senator calls Nnamdi Kanu's release |
Former Chief Whip of the Senate and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Senator Rowland Owie has renewed the call on General Muhammadu Buhari to release without further delay the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement over the weekend, IPOB he said, is not a militant group but a group agitating for self-determination via peaceful protests which is constitutionally allowed provided they do not resort to violence.
Said the senator in a statement, ''I wish to remind President Muhammadu Buhari that every elected leader in Nigeria becomes a prisoner of palace jesters around him and become isolated from realities outside Aso Rock”. President Buhari should open the prison door now and come out and face the reality, I urge President Buhari to release Kanu, the leader of the IPOB, now and dialogue with them”.
He reminded the dangers inherent in heeding the counsel of some of his advisers which he dismissed as the foolish counsel of Ahithophel that Biafran activists are armed militants
“The President should not listen to palace jesters who are telling him that they are militants like Boko Haram. They are not. While Boko Haram leadership is not visible, the IPOB leadership is visible. Buhari should act now. A Bini parable says the king that folds his hands while his palace is burning ends up being a tenant.”, the senator cautioned.
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Roland Stephen Owie was elected Senator for the Edo South constituency of Edo State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. Roland Owie was the pioneer chief whip of the senate after forming a formidable team with the then president of the Senate, Late Sen Chuba Okadigbo. Prior to him being a senator, he was elected into the House of Representative in 1979.
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