Leading Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday
Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu-led government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
In a video he released on Monday, Igboho said Kanu was just an agitator fighting for the Southeast region just like himself who is agitating for the Southwest.
The Yoruba Nation agitator said, “Release Nnamdi Kanu, stop politics. This guy did not do anything. Today is 26th February, 2024. Release him, let him go and stay with his family.
“This guy is just fighting for his people in the Southeast like me that I am fighting for my people in Yoruba land, release him, let him go.
Stop politics playing. Release Kanu. Please release him.”
Meanwhile, Aloy Ejimakor, the special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, has said on Monday that his client needed immediate proper medical treatment to avoid him having heart failure.
Ejimakor, who said this while speaking to newsmen after his team applied for Nnamdi Kanu’s bail at the Federal High Court in Abuja, stated that the medical facilities in the Department of State Security Service (DSS) could not treat the IPOB leader well and things are allowed to go worse.
He said, “From the medical reports made available to us, which we fighting a cause, his health is not too wonderful. He needs proper medical attention and it is obvious that in the DSS hospital where he is detained, they do not have the capacity or the enough facilities to handle the situation, his health condition.
You know, you can imagine the situation where samples of his blood had been taken over 25 times, you know, and yet there’s no cure in sight.
We have also brought in an independent medical practitioner who also examined him and came up with the conclusion that the situation he is having right now can lead to heart failure. We know that they may not be able to have the facilities to treat such conditions.
“You might even find it difficult to have it in the State House (Aso Rock). You remember in the State House sometime ago, the former first lady said they don’t even have syringes.
They don’t have paracetamol, so you can imagine them bringing an issue of heart before such facilities.
We do not think they have the facility to take care of him or otherwise they would have done it. every health otherwise we also believe that you don’t have the facility to manage you know such that.”
On the other side, the federal high court has fixed March 19, 2024, to rule on Nnamdi Kanu’s bail application.