“President Tinubu, If Your Proxy War Against Ndigbo Requires Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Death, Then Kill Him Openly And Return His Body To Us”

By Okey Anyanwu

What is unfolding under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s watch is not governance. It is not justice. It is not even prosecution. It is a slow, choreographed persecution. It is a continuation of a long and ugly history of hostility toward Ndi Igbo, masked behind the robes of a judiciary that has become the executive’s loudest whisper and its most obedient dagger.

Watching the witch-hunt, the institutional bullying, and the judicial suppuration directed at Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through the compliant hands of Justice Omotosho violently reminds one of Tinubu’s long and familiar disdain toward the Igbo nation. From his days as governor of Lagos State until now, his record is embroidered with patterns of exclusion, intimidation, demolition, deceit, and strategic suffocation of Igbo aspirations.

He inherited this case from the Buhari regime, but he has transformed it into a personal crusade, a proxy war, a theatre of humiliation targeted at an entire people. The latest judgment delivered by Justice Omotosho did not merely expose the judiciary. It stripped it of its last garment of credibility. It revealed a system where justice no longer stands blind but now bends eagerly toward the wishes of the executive, issuing verdicts that resemble roadside point and kill rather than constitutional adjudication.

Omotosho did not deliver a judicial decision. He delivered a political script. And unlike the usual practice where judgments circulate in the hands of akara sellers and iru hawkers before the court pronounces them, this one was already predicted by every observer who understands the anatomy of state-sponsored persecution.

Omotosho did not deliver a judicial decision. He delivered a political script. And unlike the usual practice where judgments circulate in the hands of akara sellers and iru hawkers before the court pronounces them, this one was already predicted by every observer who understands the anatomy of state-sponsored persecution.

Let the truth be said without hesitation. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not being punished for anything he said or did. He is being punished because of a historical, familial, and political contempt that Tinubu and his household have nursed toward Ndi Igbo for decades. The past utterances of Senator Oluremi Tinubu remain a revealing window into that hostility, a sentiment that now finds full expression as official policy.