Omoyele Sowore, the Nigerian presidential aspirant and National Chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC), has pledged to free the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and the leader of the Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Igboho, from detention if he is elected President of Nigeria in 2023.
He made this disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja during his public declaration to run for President of Nigeria in the upcoming general elections.
Sowore stated that all political inmates, including IPOB leader Kanu and Yoruba agitator Igboho, will be released because they were being kept illegally in custody.
He stated that he entered the race to ensure that justice was done to all ethnic groups seeking self-determination.
Sowore urged government officials to step up efforts to rehabilitate prisons across the country, warning that they might need to serve time there when their tenure was finished.
He said, “As soon as I am sworn in on June 12, 2023, I will release all political detainees, particularly Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho. People who are asking for self-determination should not go to prison. Those in the Diaspora must also be given the right to vote during the election.
“We will not encourage those who put them in prison; they should be rehabilitating prisons now because they may have to spend some time there as well.”
He stated that Nigeria would have a new constitution that would include provisions for self-determination and referendums.
He said, “For those who are pushing the struggle for self-determination, we will accord you the opportunity you are seeking by creating a new Constitution for Nigeria, which must necessarily contain the right to self-determination and the right to a referendum if you are tired of Nigeria.”