Activist and politician Omoyele Sowore has revealed that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has become a “celebrity” inside the Sokoto Custodial Centre, as he shares more about Nnamdi Kanu’s current life behind bars.
Sowore made the remark on Monday while speaking with journalists at the Federal High Court in Abuja. He insisted that the Federal Government would soon realize it made a serious error by sentencing Kanu to life imprisonment.
According to him, the presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, would ultimately have to apologize to Kanu for what he described as a grave miscarriage of justice.
Kanu has been in detention for several years following multiple charges related to his agitation for the independent state of Biafra, a case that continues to generate widespread controversy.
He said …
“Nnamdi Kanu is already a celebrity in prison. They said he has already become the president of the prison but I doubt, it must have been conferred on him just by respect.
Very soon you will see that on their own they would reverse the fundamental mistake they are very made regarding Kanu.
“I predicted that they would send him to prison and I predicted that it would be the mistake of their lives.
“The people we asked to protest to prevent Kanu from going to jail are all rushing to Sokoto.
I want his family members to give me the right to admit people to see him, so that I would tell you the day the judge who sentenced him would go to Sokoto to beg like Fela was begged for doing what is wrong, if he has not done that already.
“When they were taking him to Sokoto, they thought that they would ridicule him and when they got to Sokoto, he turned Sokoto into another Mecca.
“They don’t have sense or people who can reason in government. Look at where we are, you jailed Kanu and he’s now a celebrity in prison.”