{"id":10505,"date":"2022-01-06T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:15:09","slug":"president-buhari-opens-up-on-the-release-of-nnamdi-kanu-says-we-cannot-release-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT BUHARI OPENS UP ON THE RELEASE OF Nnamdi KANU … Says, We Cannot Release Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRESIDENT BUHARI OPENS UP ON THE RELEASE OF Nnamdi KANU<\/div>\n
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said he will not release leader of the indeginous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. His release he said will interfer with the judiciary institution.<\/div>\n
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The president made this known on Wednesday, in an interview on channel television.<\/div>\n
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Although he acknowledges the possibility of a political resolution, he believes the IPOB leader must answer for his actions over the years, especially while he was out of the country.<\/div>\n
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This and other burning issues such as\u00a0 security, economy, and politics<\/div>\n
President Buhari gave answers to.<\/div>\n
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“We Cannot Release Him. Nnamdi Kanu Should Defend Himself In Court.” He said.<\/div>\n
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\u201cNigerians know that I don\u2019t interfere with the judiciary. Let him be listened to. For those who are saying that we should release him, no, we cannot release him.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is a possibility of political solution; if people behave themselves, all well and good, but you can\u2019t go to a foreign country and keep on sending incorrect economic and security problem against your country and thinking that you will never have to account for what you have been doing. Let him account for what he has been doing.\u201d<\/div>\n
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In November last year, President Buhari had promised to consider the request of some leaders from the South East region to release Kanu who is facing treason charges preferred against him by the Nigerian Government.<\/div>\n
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Although he told the Igbo leaders under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats that they had made an extremely difficult demand, he insisted that the best thing was to subject the IPOB leader to the judicial system.<\/div>\n
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The President however doubted if Kanu was willing to return to the country to clear his name from the allegations against him after he fled in 2017.<\/div>\n
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He further stressed.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere is one institution that I wouldn\u2019t dare interfere with \u2013 that is the judiciary,\u201d he said. \u201cKanu\u2019s case is with the judiciary, but what I wonder is when Kanu was safely in Europe abusing this administration and mentioning too many things, I never thought really he wants to voluntarily come and defend himself on the accusations.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, we are giving him an opportunity to defend himself in our system, not to be abusing us from Europe as if he was not a Nigerian. Let him come here to us and then criticise us here.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Assessing his administration\u2019s performance since he assumed office in 2015, especially in the three key areas of security, improving the economy, and fighting corruption, he has this to say.<\/div>\n
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\u201cFor Nigerians to be fair with this administration is to try and find out from the time we won the election in 2015 till now, in the three promises we made \u2013 improving security, improving the economy, and trying to fight corruption; securing the country in the North East, if you ask anybody from Borno State, from Yobe State, from Adamawa State, there are a number of local governments \u2013 about 18 \u2013 that were in the hands of Boko Haram, no local government now is strictly in the hands of Boko Haram or ISWAP. So, in that respect, we have done something,\u201d President Buhari asserted.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn the economy, don\u2019t forget and I challenge so many people to go and check with the central bank or NNPC. The production from 1999 to 2014 was 2.1 million barrels per day. When we came, somehow the militants were unleashed in the South South.<\/div>\n
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\u201cProduction went down to half a million barrels per day, and coincidentally, the price again collapsed to about $37 per barrel. But look at what we did within the time frame and the resources available to us relative to the government we inherited.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Despite the gains made so far in improving the economy, the President is not happy with the present state of power because no country can develop without infrastructure, and infrastructure, for him, means road, rail, and power.<\/div>\n
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He, however, gave an assurance that his administration was working hard to bridge the gap, although the privatisation of the sector was another problem to worry about.<\/div>\n
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Speaking on the issue of Chinese Loans,<\/div>\n
President Buhari lamented that the owners of the distribution companies bought them based on geo-political zones rather than merit. Stressing that, removing a system and reintroducing one was no joke.<\/div>\n
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He went on to defend his government\u2019s decision to source loans from China, saying anyone willing to help Nigeria\u2019s infrastructure was welcome.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe take that (loans) where it is necessary \u2026 we got the Chinese to help us in the rail and the roads, how can we turn that down? If we had turned that down maybe between Lagos to Ibadan, you will have to walk,\u201d the President said.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, the Chinese are welcome, anybody that is prepared to come and help us and our infrastructure to do the roads, the rail, and power will be welcomed.\u201d<\/div>\n
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President Muhammadu Buhari greets China\u2019s State Councillor and Foreign Minister, Mr Wang Yi, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on January 5, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
On education, President Buhari told Nigerian youths to use their exposure to improve themselves and not see them as tickets to depend on the government.<\/div>\n
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He said, \u201cI wish when they go to school when they work hard when they earn their degree; they don\u2019t do it thinking that government must give them jobs. You get educated because an educated person is certainly better than an uneducated person, even in identifying personal problems.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, education is not just meant to hang on to the government to give you jobs and then what the colonialists indoctrinated in us to believe \u2013 have a car, have a house, start work by 8:00 am, and close by 2 pm.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The President also shared his political view where he said he was ready to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, if the National Assembly would include the options of consensus candidate and indirect primary to the mode of selecting a candidate for an election, as against the initial direct mode as the only option to conduct primaries by political parties.<\/div>\n
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Asked if he will sign the bill if the lawmakers effect the change in that direction, he affirmed, \u201cYes, I will! I will sign.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThere should be options, you can\u2019t dictate to people and say you are doing democracy. Give them other options so they can make a choice.\u201d<\/div>\n
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