Former presidential candidate and human rights advocate, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that the Nigerian government “does not want Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB out alive.”
Kanu has remained in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, since 2021 after he was rearrested on charges bordering on terrorism and treason linked to his separatist campaign.
Sowore, on Monday, the 20th of October, 2025, led a large protest in Abuja calling for Kanu’s release. During the demonstration, several participants, including Kanu’s lawyer and brother, were arrested and later detained in Kuje Prison.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the 22nd of October, he stated that Kanu continues to be held because “they know the lies sustaining their power will collapse once Mazi Nnamdi Kanu walks out as a free man.”
He further alleged that the authorities do not “want Mazi Nnamdi Kanu freed alive, and they are united in that mission.”
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According to him, “ever since they realized that their web of deceit was beginning to unravel, they have gone into overdrive.”
Sowore added that the ruling class “know that the people’s eyes have opened, and the fake political careers built on deceit, destruction, and the decimation of the oppressed will not survive the truth.”
He concluded that “they fear his freedom because it will expose their fraud, greed, backstabbing, and betrayal of justice.”