The Igbo Community Association, Abuja, has urged President Bola Tinubu to heed the advice of well meaning Nigerians as well as the international community by releasing the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The association said Kanu’s continued detention is having a negative impact across the South East, the wider Nigerian nation and the diaspora.
In a statement issued on Wednesday by its President General, Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe, the group said it was closely monitoring developments surrounding the IPOB leader’s case, describing his imprisonment as an act of injustice against a marginalised people.
According to the association, the judgment delivered on November 20, 2025, could have far reaching consequences for national cohesion and peace.
“The judgment of November 20, 2025, smacks of judicial recklessness. It is similar to incidents that threatened the existence of Nigeria during the period leading to the pogrom of 1966,” the statement read.
The group expressed concern over the possible repercussions of the judgment on the South East and other parts of the country.
“With a saddened heart, the Igbo Community Association, FCT, calls on the Tinubu administration to listen to the voice of the people and release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from prison,” it stated.
The association also urged the President to consider the position of 44 federal lawmakers who have reportedly called on the Federal Government to seek a political solution to the Kanu matter.
“The President should also listen to the voices of forty four legislators of the National Assembly who have joined the call for a political solution to the Nnamdi Kanu impasse,” the group added.
Reiterating its stance, the association appealed to President Tinubu to seize the opportunity to grant Kanu his freedom in the interest of national unity and peace.
“Igbos are Nigerians. We deserve to be treated as Nigerians,” the statement concluded.
