As Notable Leaders in the Southeast are making frantic efforts regarding the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu, a coalition of pan-Igbo rights activists, the Rising Sun Group, has accused Abia North senator, Orji Uzor Kalu of using the case of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, to curry favour from President Bola Tinubu.

Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State, had in an interview, said Kanu’s agitation caused the death of 30,000 people in the South-East. He equally said he has been making serious efforts to get Kanu released from detention.

The senator was reacting to issues surrounding Kanu’s conviction for terrorism and the life sentence slammed on him by an Abuja Federal High Court presided by Justice James Omotosho.

Rising Sun, in a statement made available to Judiciary Corespondents on Wednesday by its coordinators, Maxwell Dede and Reverend Father Augustine Odinmegwa, disputed Kalu’s claims, alleging that the senator is among some members of the Igbo elite who are willing to play any role to advance their political interests.

The pan-Igbo activists insisted that Orji Kalu should have kept quiet if he had nothing to say on the matter, rather than justifying what they described as Kanu’s persecution.

The activists added that Kalu insulted the Igbos by comparing his “calmness” during his trial for alleged financial fraud to Nnamdi Kanu’s “alleged unruly behaviour” in court.

The statement stressed that Kalu should understand that there is no nexus between the offence for which he was convicted and jailed, “and the trumped-up charges, biased trial, of subsequent strange conviction of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”.

Urging the senator to stop embarrassing himself in his desperation for political relevance, Activists observed that if not for Nigeria’s flawed electoral system, Kalu will have no business in governance. “We want to warm him to desist from using Nnamdi Kanu’s matter to play politics,” the statement added.