President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday received Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in a meeting that comes barely days after the governor visited the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the Sokoto Correctional Centre.
Otti, dressed in a grey, knee-length traditional attire, arrived at the President’s office complex in the afternoon and was ushered in for a closed-door engagement. Details of the meeting were not immediately made public.
The governor’s visit to Aso Rock follows his high-profile trip to the Sokoto facility, where he met Kanu in the company of the IPOB leader’s younger brother, Emmanuel Kanu; the Abia State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ikechukwu Uwanna, SAN; and his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma. Access to the correctional centre was facilitated by officials of the Sokoto State Government.
Speaking with journalists after the Sokoto visit, Otti said matters surrounding Kanu’s continued detention remain a key priority for his administration. He explained that the Abia State Government is pursuing a coordinated, lawful and constitutional strategy toward securing Kanu’s eventual release.
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“While Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is free to pursue his appeal, I am happy to inform you that I have activated — and will continue to work on — the processes already on ground,” Otti said through his media aide, stressing that his government would stay engaged until a humane and just resolution is achieved.
The meeting with President Tinubu is expected to further shape ongoing political and legal discussions around Kanu’s case, though neither side issued an official statement at press time.