Civil society group, Congress of Good Governance for National Unity (CGGNU) has commended President Bola Tinubu for directing the release of minors standing trial for their roles in last October’s protest and also freeing of the American Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan, standing trial on allegation of money laundering, urging him to extend the same gesture to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

The group, in a statement by the National President, Abiodun Fanoro, also commended Tinubu for what it called a “demonstration of flexibility and humanity even in the face of obvious legal encumbrances that he could evasively hang on to in the cases of the minors and the American.”

It, therefore, asked the President in the spirit of equity and fairness to demonstrate that no law could tie his hands in applying magnanimity and his prerogative for the release of Kanu, who, in its view, “has an equal right to benefit from the application of the constitutional powers and moral privileges of President Tinubu.

The group also urged Tinubu to release Kanu “as a historic honour for the late Ndigbo leader, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, buried a few days ago and who the President eulogised and described as a hero and patriot; who, in our reasoning, deserves the highest honour bestowed on heroes and patriots, which the releasing Kanu could aptly symbolise.”