The Indigenous People of Biafra has attacked Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo for criticizing presidential candidate Peter Obi’s calls for the release of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, accusing the governor of a dramatic reversal of his own previously stated position driven by political ambition rather than principle.
IPOB spokesman Comrade Emma Powerful said the organization was outraged by Soludo’s characterization of Obi’s demand for Kanu’s release as a slap on the Nigerian judiciary, and described the governor’s current stance as a betrayal of the position he had publicly and visibly held as recently as 2023 when he visited Kanu at the DSS facility in Abuja, sat with him, publicly demanded his release, and offered to stand as his personal surety.
The group also cited statements made as recently as March 2025 by Soludo’s own Commissioner for Information crediting the governor with actively working toward Kanu’s release in the belief that it would restore peace in the South-East, saying the governor’s current attack on Obi for making the identical argument was therefore inexplicable on any ground other than political calculation.
IPOB attributed the reversal to what it described as the governor’s ambitions around a 2031 vice-presidential slot, suggesting that proximity to federal political power had led him to distance himself from positions he had held when they served his interests in Anambra. The group said the change in stance represented not statesmanship but political chameleonic behavior of the most transparent kind.
