Prophet Elijah Bamidele Ilukholor criticises the resistance of Igbos to the call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu…..says “this is why an Igbo man may not be President any time soon”
General Overseer of Christ House of Prayer and Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Elijah Bamidele Ilukholor, on Friday, expressed shock at the sharp criticism his call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu has suffered in the hands of the Igbos.
In a barrage of messages from some social media users that are of Igbo extraction, some persons hurled insults at the popular clergy for calling for the pardon and release of Nnamdi Kanu.
The Prophet, while reacting to newsmen, on the development, said the opposition to the pardon and release of Nnamdi Kanu by the Igbos and the insults they have been hurling at him for making such patriotic call is the exact reason it will be difficult for an Igbo person to be President of Nigeria.
He emphasized further that his call for the pardon and release of Nnamdi Kanu is a patriotic call from a place of humanity in him and that he is shocked that the Igbos will not keep their egos aside and join in the call for the pardon and release of Nnamdi Kanu.
He prayed Almighty God to touch the heart of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to pardon and release Nnamdi Kanu with the belief that the detention of Nnamdi Kanu is long overdue and that a human approach, not detention will be a way forward now.
“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu is becoming an endless exercise now. If the court has asked that he should be freed, he should be freed. Let it not be like as if the man is being detained out of malice by the Government. The law should take its course but the law should be fast about it. His continued detention is beginning to look like an indefinite exercise. Yet again, I call on His Excellency Peter Obi and all the leaders from South East to join in the call to call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to please pardon and release Nnamdi Kanu,” Prophet Elijah Bamidele Ilukholor further said.
