Buhari speaks today On why Kanu El-Zakzaky Are Still In Detention

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President Muhammadu Buhari’s will tell Nigerians today why Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is still in detention despite two court pronouncements ordering his release, if signals coming from close quarters, are anything to go by.

It will come alongside other very critical issues bothering Nigerians and the world, in the President’s maiden interaction with the Nigerian media since coming into office on May 29, this year, more than seven months ago.

Kanu, the Co-ordinator of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who was arrested in October, has remained in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), ever since, despite the order of, first, the Magistrate Court, Abuja, before Justice Shuaibu Usman, and thereafter, by the Federal High Court, Abuja, before Justice Adeniyi Ademola, setting him free.

This has raised immense concerns in certain quarters as to the President’s position on the rule of law, which is a cardinal component of democracy, with some critics directly accusing him of going back to his military days as Head of State, where he allegedly unleashed the most draconian and anti-democratic iron rule ever in the history of Nigeria, in spite of his claim prior to his election to have become a democratic convert.

Whirlwindnews.com, gathered on good authority that the President, apart from presenting the Federal Government’s position on the issue of the detention of the IPOB leader, would also speak on the larger issue of the renewed Biafran agitation, which put him in trouble.

Besides, other issues, like the recent slaying of scores of Shiite worshippers in Zaria, Kaduna State on December 12, and the detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, which has raised some diplomatic disquiet between Nigeria and Iran, the home base of the sect, as well as international human rights concerns, is will also come to the fore.

So, would ongoing x-raying of the activities of the government of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, especially the recent revelation of massive corruption in the manner the money budgeted for the procurement of arms to prosecute the war against the Boko Haram terrorists, was allegedly shared to individuals by former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki.

“You are going to get his (Buhari’s) position on all these things. From Kanu to Biafra, Dasuki, El-Zakzaky to the SUVs, who received what, to the economy, Boko Haram, you will hear from the President directly, because this administration and this President has nothing to hide and will not pretend about anything,” was the way a source close to government, put it, Tuesday night.