Don’t Extradite Nnamdi Kanu, Ex-PSC Boss Tells FG

Chief Simon Okeke, el­der statesman and former chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), has told the Federal Govern­ment not to extradite Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who is based in the United Kingdom.

Reacting to the move by the Federal Government to extradite Nnamdi Kanu, Okeke said that the FG should rather face the secu­rity challenges in the country.

He declared that extra­dition should not be its pri­ority when Boko Haram in­surgency and other security challenges had been holding the country to ransom.

The elder statesman said this at his country home, Amichi, in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, noting also that the criticisms trailing the just concluded Ohaneze Ndigbo election, which pro­duced Chief George Obio­zor as the president general of the Igbo apex body, was out of self-centeredness and should be dismissed.

Chief Okeke said he was part and parcel of the exer­cise and saw nothing wrong that could justify the crit­icisms trailing the emer­gence of Chief Obiozor.

He explained that the in­sinuation that Obiozor was the candidate of the governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodima, was neither here nor there.

Okeke said Obiozor the former Nigerian Ambassa­dor to the United States of America (Obiozor) was elect­ed on merit and not selected.