Lawmaker representing Abia South, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is optimistic that President Bola Tinubu will release Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

Abaribe described President Tinubu as a listening leader, saying the president will do the needful to address the criminal activities in the Southeast.

The lawmaker said this while addressing reporters after visiting Governor Alex Otti of Abia State.

Abaribe hoped the president would heed the advice of the Attorney General of the Federation and others who have called for the release of the IPOB leader.

He said, ?I expect that the President will listen to both his Attorney General and every one of us who have been agitating about the issues in the Southeast. First of all, the insurgency, the sit-at-home on Mondays, and every other thing we have noticed in the Southeast.

?What we now know in the Southeast is that criminals and all other people who advocate violence have taken over and are using the name of Nnamdi Kanu to perpetrate all these despicable acts.

?We know that the President, being a listening man, will also look at all the issues involved, which we have presented to him from various mediums; that he will do the needful and release Nnamdi Kanu so that it will put a stop to all these things that are happening in the Southeast and bring back the Southeast as the hub of production in Nigeria.?

On the Tax Reform Bills, which are still before the National Assembly, the lawmaker said the president needs to release Kanu to encourage production in the region, saying ?You cannot tax people who don?t produce.?

?He needs Nnamdi Kanu out so that all those things that are holding us down in the Southeast, that have made us not to produce as much as we ought to produce, will not be there,? Abaribe maintained.

To quicken Kanu?s release and take back the Southeast region from kidnappers and cultists, Abaribe pledged that political leaders in the region are ready to stand as guarantors for his release.

?We continue to call on President Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu. We are ready and willing to be the guarantors for him to be released so that we can have life coming back into the Southeast and take it away from the criminals, kidnappers, the cultists and dangerous elements,? the lawmaker said. (Vanguard)

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