The Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-political organisation has urged the Lagos state government to free Fredrick Nwajagu, Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate.
Nwajagu was cracking a joke over his comment inviting the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to Lagos State, according to Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who urged President-elect Bola Tinubu and Lagos State Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu to facilitate Nwajagu’s release.
Isiguzoro, on the other hand, claimed Nwajagu only cracked a joke during the election, similar to former Lagos State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Chairman Musiliu Akinsanya, better known as MC Oluomo, and urged Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu to facilitate Nwajagu’s release in the interest of national unity and reconciliation.
“The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is still worried that a traditional ruler, Nze-Igbo, in Lagos State, who was only cracking jokes, has not been released.
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According to Isiguzoro: “He has told us through his emissary that he was only cracking a joke, and we want to tell the governor of Lagos State and the President-elect that Igbos are begging on behalf of Eze-Igbo that they should facilitate his release because he was only cracking a joke like MC Oluomo.
“Igbos were asked to support Sanwo-Olu after much consultations with Umahi, Ikpeazu, and Wike, who said it’s in Igbos’ interest to support Sanwo-Olu, so in the light of the foregoing, Sanwo-Olu should start the national healing process by facilitating Nze-Igbo’s release who has been abandoned in detention and has confirmed that he just cracked a joke.
“IPOB does not exist in the Southwest; they are only in the Southeast. There is no way IPOB will go to the Southwest to cause havoc. If the police can forgive MC Oluomo because what he said was a joke, then they should release Eze-Igbo because it’s a joke, he should not remain in detention till May. We are pleading for Asiwaju and Sanwo-Olu to intervene in the spirit of national reconciliation that the traditional ruler should be released.”
