A human right activist and legal practitioner Dr. Uche Maduemesi has said that President Bola Tinubu failed to use the opportunity offered him by the June 12 Democracy Day to heal the wounds of the past, check the perceived Igbo marginalisation and staunch the insecurity happening in the Southeast. According to the legal practitioner, President Tinubu in trying to assuage all the patriots who fought for NADECO failed to include the names Chief Ralph Obioha who lost his commercial bank as a result of his involvement in the democratic struggle, Chief C.C. Onoh, former governor of old Anambra State and some others.

 He said that President Tinubu should have ordered the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and stem once and for all the perceived root of insecurity in the Southeast. Nnamdi Kanu has been in DSS detention for the past 4 years since he was rendition from Kenya by agents of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

 Speaking as a guest in a Signature Television democracy Day programme Thursday afternoon, Dr. Maduemesi while commending Tinubu for the honours he had bestowed on the recipients so far, called on him to bring to closure the Nnamdi Kanu debacle which has been before the court and order his immediate release. The excuse that the matter was subjudice and before a court of law does not hold water as it had become clear that it was political in nature he said.

 Tinubu had in his democracy day address before a joint session of the National Assembly honoured M.K.O. Abiola the symbol of June 12, Professor Humphrey Nwosu, Chief Alfred Rewane, Alex Ibru, Ndubuisi Kanu among others. He also conferred national honours on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbass.

Source: Drumnewsonline.