{"id":76344,"date":"2025-10-09T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76344"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:39:43","slug":"atiku-backs-sowores-campaign-for-nnamdi-kanus-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/atiku-backs-sowores-campaign-for-nnamdi-kanus-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Backs Sowore\u2019s Campaign for Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has joined calls for the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, describing his continued detention as \u201ca stain on Nigeria\u2019s belief in the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X handle on Thursday, Atiku expressed full support for a campaign launched by human rights activist and AAC presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, demanding Kanu\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>He said defying court orders that granted Kanu bail amounted to \u201can abuse of power and an assault on justice,\u201d urging the Federal Government to either release or prosecute him in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore had earlier called on South-East leaders, including Governors Chukwuma Soludo and Alex Otti, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi, to join the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu has been in DSS custody since his re-arrest in 2021 despite multiple court rulings ordering his release, including a 2022 Court of Appeal judgment that discharged him of all charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has joined calls for the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, describing his continued detention as \u201ca stain on Nigeria\u2019s belief in the rule of law.\u201d In a post on his X handle on Thursday, Atiku expressed full support for a campaign launched by human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76346,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76344\/revisions\/76346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}