Jailed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been granted honorary citizenship of the State of Georgia in the United States of America.
The IPOB leader was also adopted as an ‘Outstanding Citizen’ who should be “accorded every courtesy as a Goodwill Ambassador from Georgia.”
Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, made the proclamation on behalf of the Republican-controlled US state.
The proclamation letter, dated January 16, 2026, was presented on Friday, January 23, 2026, at Milledgeville, one of Georgia’s capital cities, by State Representative Gab Okoye.
Former Consul General of Nigeria in South Africa, Ambassador Uche Ajulu-Okeke, received the certificate of citizenship on Kanu’s behalf.
Ajulu-Okeke described the imprisoned Biafra independence activist as “Africa’s most famous political prisoner and global prisoner of conscience”.
The proclamation reads: “I, Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of the State of Georgia, do hereby proclaim Nnamdi Okwu Kanu as an Honorary Georgia Citizen.
“May this Outstanding Citizen be accorded every courtesy as a Goodwill Ambassador from Georgia in his travels to other states, to nations beyond the borders of the United States of America, or wherever he may hereafter travel or reside. Thank you for your service to our state.
“In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, at the State Capitol, in the City of Atlanta, this 16th day of January, A.D. 2026”.