In a press statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB taunted Justice Omotosho, claiming, “While Justice Omotosho busied himself doing the bidding of his APC political masters by jailing an innocent man, the very forces he sought to appease have now carried terror into Yorubaland itself.”
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged that Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, convicted and jailed its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, without proof and without allocutus, but to fulfill the bidding and interests of his political masters within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a press statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, IPOB taunted Justice Omotosho, claiming, “While Justice Omotosho busied himself doing the bidding of his APC political masters by jailing an innocent man, the very forces he sought to appease have now carried terror into Yorubaland itself.”
“This was not justice. It was vendetta dressed in robes,” the IPOB spokesperson stated.
IPOB said, "Today, communities in are under sustained attack by Fulani terrorists: villages raided, lives lost, ancestral lands violated.”
Describing the situation as brutal and undeniable irony, IPOB said that while Justice Omotosho “persecuted” a man who warned against injustice, injustice has come knocking at his own doorstep.
IPOB said Kanu had repeatedly warned that injustice would not be confined to any one ethnic group, religion, or political alliance, but would eventually spread nationwide in Nigeria.
“He warned that those who sacrificed truth for ambition would reap the whirlwind. Those warnings are no longer prophecy; they are unfolding reality,” IPOB said.
The group also challenged President Bola Tinubu to explain or justify Kanu’s imprisonment in the face of growing insecurity across the country.
“They are ensuring that injustice travels, mutates, and ultimately consumes everyone,” he said.
IPOB warned that advisers encouraging President Tinubu’s administration to sustain Kanu’s “unlawful” imprisonment were accelerating national instability, insisting that Nigeria would not know peace until justice is restored.
“The immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a concession; it is a necessity,” IPOB stressed, adding that history would ultimately judge the actions of those involved in Kanu’s “unlawful” imprisonment.