{"id":81804,"date":"2026-01-18T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81804"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:05:09","slug":"pardon-kanu-to-boost-2027-chances-ohanaeze-leader-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/pardon-kanu-to-boost-2027-chances-ohanaeze-leader-tells-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Kanu to Boost 2027 Chances, Ohanaeze Leader Tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Deputy President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, has urged President Bola Tinubu to pardon the detained Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as a strategic step toward securing re-election in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Isiguzoro said a pardon would help ease tensions in the South-East and weaken separatist agitation ahead of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised the President to suspend the new tax law, implement the 2014 National Conference report, fast-track major infrastructure projects and consider creating additional states to broaden political support.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, several interest groups across the country are aligning against Tinubu\u2019s second-term ambition, warning that unresolved grievances could fuel opposition momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA pardon for Nnamdi Kanu before 2027, preferably on June 12 or October 1 will calm the South-East and deny the opposition a major mobilisation tool,\u201d Isiguzoro said.<\/p>\n<p>He described the implementation of the 2014 Confab report as a potential \u201cgame changer\u201d and stressed that visible infrastructure projects and inclusive reforms would be critical ahead of the highly competitive 2027 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata The Deputy President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, has urged President Bola Tinubu to pardon the detained Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as a strategic step toward securing re-election in 2027. Isiguzoro said a pardon would help ease tensions in the South-East and weaken separatist agitation ahead of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81806,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804\/revisions\/81806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}