Bishops urge Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu

The Charismatic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to merchandise the jailed person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

The bishops made the entreaty to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, during the CBCN’s 2026 Synod successful Abuja on Wednesday.

Speaking connected behalf of the South-East, Archbishop Robert Imoh praised the Tinubu medication earlier making an affectional entreaty to Akume implicit Kanu’s continued detention.

“With each my heart, I privation to accidental that this large authorities of Nigeria, nether President Tinubu, is doing marvellously well. And I privation to humbly request, sir, this is from the South-East, with my knees connected the ground, that you beg our beloved President that Nnamdi Kanu beryllium released,” Imoh said.

Representatives from Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones besides expressed enactment for the CBCN President-General, Archbishop Leonard Bature Kawas, and authorised him to talk connected issues affecting the country.

“Now that the House has mandated maine to speak, I volition present speak,” Kawas said.

The bishops said the CBCN has much than 950 consecrated and installed canonical bishops successful Nigeria a...