AVID CONDEMNS KILLING OF ONDO MONARCH, DEMANDS KANU’S RELEASE AND SECURITY REFORMS

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 19, 2026

American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID)

P.O. Box 7561, Jacksonville, FL 32238  

Contact: Dr. Sylvester Onyia, President  

Email: info@avidusa.org  

AVID Condemns Brutal Murder of Oba Kehinde Falodun, Warns Yoruba Leaders: The Fulani Jihad Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Foretold Is Now at Your Doorstep — Release Him Now or Face Continued Carnage

The American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID), a 501(c)(19) non-profit organization of honorably discharged United States military veterans of Igbo ancestry, expresses profound sorrow and outrage over the cold-blooded assassination of His Royal Majesty, Oba Kehinde Falodun, the Alagamo of Agamo Community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.

This respected traditional ruler was slaughtered in his own palace on February 18, 2026, by suspected Fulani terrorists (commonly referred to as bandits) who invaded his domain. Eyewitness accounts describe armed men speaking Hausa, operating in the exact pattern of the marauding Fulani jihadist elements that have terrorized communities across Nigeria for years. We extend our deepest condolences to the grieving family, the people of Agamo, the entire Ondo State, and the broader Yoruba nation. No community deserves such barbarity.

Yet, as veterans who have sworn to defend life, liberty, and justice — both in the United States and for our ancestral homeland — we cannot remain silent on the preventable nature of this tragedy. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has for over a decade issued clear, prophetic warnings about the systematic Fulani jihadist agenda to overrun Nigeria, seize ancestral lands, and impose Fulanization through terror. Those warnings, broadcast on Radio Biafra and played in open court, were not “hate speech” — they were accurate intelligence ignored at Nigeria’s peril.

The very judge who presided over Mazi Kanu’s case and handed him a life sentence on trumped-up terrorism and treason charges — Justice James Omotosho, an indigene of Ondo State — now watches these same Fulani terrorists strike at the heart of his own community. While IPOB and the global Igbo family mourn this loss, we must state plainly: had Justice Omotosho and Yoruba political leaders prioritized justice by facilitating the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, this monarch would likely still be alive today.

The only force that truly terrifies the Fulani Janjaweed elite and their sponsors in government is the voice and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. His continued illegal detention has emboldened these terrorists, allowing the jihad he repeatedly exposed to spread from the Middle Belt into the Southwest. Yorubaland is bleeding because its leaders chose ethnic rivalry over national survival, branding Igbo self-determination as the problem while the real enemy slaughtered their kings, farmers, and citizens.

Evil has a way of locating those who aid and abet iniquity. The blood of Oba Kehinde Falodun cries out from the ground in Ondo State — a direct consequence of the injustice meted out to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

AVID therefore demands:

1. The immediate and unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Sokoto prison.

2. An international investigation into the Fulani terrorist network operating with impunity across Nigeria.

3. Yoruba leaders, including South-West governors and traditional rulers, to publicly join the call for Kanu’s freedom and end the dangerous narrative that positions Igbo people as their enemy.

4. The United States Government and international community to exert diplomatic pressure on Nigeria to end this cycle of selective justice and state-sponsored insecurity.

We, American veterans of Igbo descent, who have fought for freedom on foreign battlefields, will not stand idly by while our kith and kin in Nigeria are hunted like animals. The time for political games is over. Release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu now — the security and survival of every Nigerian community, Yoruba, Igbo, and beyond, depends on it.

Biafra’s light will continue to expose darkness. Justice delayed is justice denied — but justice for Nnamdi Kanu is peace for Nigeria.

Signed,  

Dr. Sylvester Onyia  

President, American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID)  

Dr. Godson Obiagwu  

Secretary, American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID)