Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore alleges that IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has been moved to a correctional facility in Sokoto State.
Kanu, who has been held by the Department of State Services (DSS) since 2021, was reportedly sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for terrorism-related offences.
In a Facebook post, Sowore claimed that the separatist leader was quietly removed from DSS detention and transferred to a correctional facility in Sokoto.
He wrote: “The Tinubu administration has secretly moved Nnamdi Kanu to the Sokoto correctional facility.”
According to him, “This has been their plan all along. Since yesterday, the intention was to transfer Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to a notorious prison in the northern region, a place where his safety is far from assured. I can now confirm that he has already been taken to Sokoto prison.”
They claimed he would “become a king” if moved to Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja, arguing that “Igbo people” and his supporters would turn the facility into a site of pilgrimage.
They say this is why authorities are eager to keep him distant, isolated, and vulnerable.
They have also unleashed their loyalists to promote a false narrative of ‘renewed hope’ for MNK — a psychological strategy designed to pacify the public while they quietly advance their agenda.
The goal, according to these claims, is to keep people hopeful just long enough for him to remain in custody under dire conditions.”
They have no plans to release him—not for politics, not for elections. I’ve said it before: some of MNK’s strongest opponents are politicians from his own region.
They fear his influence and his connection to the people, and they want his voice suppressed. That’s why they worked so hard to undermine our #FreeNnamdiKanuNOW protest.