Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu is starting his life jail sentence in the Sokoto Custodial Centre.
His legal consultant Aloy Ejimakor said yesterday that Kanu, who was convicted on all seven counts of terrorism on Thursday, had been relocated from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja, his abode since his extradition from Kenya in June 2021.
Ejimakor said he had gone to the DSS to see Kanu only to be told that he had been sent to Sokoto.
“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has just been moved from DSS Abuja to the custodial facility (prison) in Sokoto; so far away from his lawyers, family, loved ones and well wishers,” he said on X.
He urged calm but queried the decision to send Kanu to Sokoto, saying “when Awolowo was convicted in 1963, he was sent to the East, a neutral zone in his feud with the North.”
A former counsel to Kanu, Vincent Obetta, urged President Bola Tinubu to adopt a political solution “in the interest of justice and national peace.”
Speaking in Enugu, Obetta said the non -release of the IPOB leader—despite several court orders—remains a grave violation of both the Constitution and international law.
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