A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Joe Igbokwe, has criticised Nollywood veteran, Rita Edochie, for urging the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. But Igbokwe, in a sharp rebuttal on Facebook, dismissed the actress’s plea, describing it as “unbelievable.”He wrote: “I just read Mrs Rita Edochie’s plea for Nnamdi Kanu’s freedom and I feel like vomiting. Alu melu.”The APC chieftain, a vocal critic of IPOB activities, suggested that Edochie’s remarks downplayed the violence, killings, and instability that engulfed the South-East over the last decade. Naija News reports that Kanu has been in detention since his re-arrest in 2021 after fleeing Nigeria in 2017. While many in the South-East believe freeing Kanu will ease tensions, others argue that doing so without accountability could embolden separatist violence.