President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, should be prepared to defend himself in court.
Speaking during an interview aired on Channels Television on Wednesday, Buhari said he cannot effect the release of the IPOB leader.
He said, “There is one institution that I wouldn’t interfere with, that is the judiciary, Kanu’s case is with the judiciary but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe, abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I thought he wants to come and defend himself on the accusations.
‘So, we are giving him an opportunity to defend himself in our system, not to be abusing us from Europe as if he was not a Nigerian. Let him come here with us and then criticise us here. Nigerians know that I don’t interfere with the judiciary, let him be listened to. But those who are saying that he should be released, no, we cannot release him.”
President Buhari also ruled out the possibility of a political solution to the matter saying, “There is a possibility of political solution. If people behave themselves, all well and good but you can’t go to a foreign country and keep on sending incorrect economic and security problems against our country and thinking that you would not account for what you have been doing. Let him (Kanu) account for what he has been doing.”
