The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has sworn to be released by the new administration of President-elect Bola Tinubu, according to Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo.
If Buhari does not free Kanu before May 29 when he turns himself in, according to Soludo, he will ask Tinubu to act.
Soludo has repeatedly pleaded with Buhari to free Kanu, who is detained at the Department of State Services (DSS), since he took office.
Soludo had requested in a letter to Buhari in April that Kanu be released.
He did, however, express the hope that Tinubu had received copies of his earlier letters pleading for Kanu's release.
On Friday, Soludo said on Channels Television's Politics Today: “The Attorney General is also copied in this letter and if President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration fails to take advantage of this opportunity to really rise above every other thing and be a statesman as it were, if the president fails to take advantage of that, we will be pursuing the same thing with the incoming administration.â€
The Governor further mentioned that the release of Kanu will result in long-term stability and security in the Southeast.