{"id":214157,"date":"2025-11-19T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-44-nigerian-lawmakers-write-tinubu-urge-release-of-ipobs-nnamdi-kanu\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:54:49","slug":"nigeria-44-nigerian-lawmakers-write-tinubu-urge-release-of-ipobs-nnamdi-kanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-44-nigerian-lawmakers-write-tinubu-urge-release-of-ipobs-nnamdi-kanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 44 Nigerian Lawmakers Write Tinubu, Urge Release of IPOB&#8217;s Nnamdi Kanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em>The legislators asked the president to &#8220;as soon as practicable&#8221; direct the AGF to invoke his constitutional powers by discontinuing Mr Kanu&#8217;s ongoing prosecution, noting that such a step would pave the way for an inclusive roundtable capable of producing a lasting and just political settlement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">A coalition of 44 serving members of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nass.gov.ng\/about\/item\/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Representatives<\/a><\/strong> has written to President Bola Tinubu, urging him to exercise his constitutional authority to release the detained leader of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislators asked the president to &#8220;as soon as practicable&#8221; direct the AGF to invoke his constitutional powers by discontinuing Mr Kanu&#8217;s ongoing prosecution, noting that such a step would pave the way for an inclusive roundtable capable of producing a lasting and just political settlement. A coalition of 44 serving members of the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,14306,11813,14377,257,4687,393,482,14253,6011,254,8308,10525,12962],"class_list":["post-214157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ipobs","tag-kanu","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-nnamdi","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-urge","tag-write"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}