President Muhammadu Buhari has given the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu soft landings with the flimsy amended charges brought before Justice Binta Nyako by the office of the Attorney General.
Sources within the presidency conversant with the case of Nnamdi Kanu and our efforts to secure a pardon for him and all Biafrans detained over secessionist agitations, told me that Buhari sees Nnamdi Kanu as a talkative without home training, and does not deserve his attention.
Buhari’s inner circles believes that Boko Haram, ISWAP, and bandits are more potent danger to the continued existence of Nigeria than the ‘empty threats’ of Nnamdi Kanu, though I countered that his activities are capable of turning South East into Afghanistan using the militant ESN known in intelligence circles as Unknown Gunmen.
I was informed that the seven count amended charges was deliberately construed by the office of the Attorney General whereby Nnamdi Kanu is not accused of any act bordering on murder, and where incitement was mentioned, it was not linked to the death of anybody.