Mr Baba-Alkali said this on Thursday in Abuja during a meeting with strategic police managers.
There has been tension in Ebonyi following a sit-at-home order by a faction of IPOB led by Simon Ekpa.
“But when I called the office, they said the defendant (Mr Kanu) declined to come to court, and all entreaties to make him come were unsuccessful,” the lawyer claimed.
“We thank God that justice has been done in the judgment and his freedom will further help to achieve lasting peace in the South-East.”
Youths, men, women and children of his community trooped out to Kanu’s family house in ecstasy, when news about his acquittal broke out.
The attorney-general falsely claimed that today’s Appeal Court ruling was only about the illegality of Mr Kanu’s forced removal from Kenya and transfer to Nigeria.
“The court will never shy away from calling the Executive to order when it tilts towards executive recklessness.”
The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja discharged Mr Kanu who has been in detention for several months on Thursday.
Mr Kanu, who expressed dissatisfaction with the judgement, has proposed challenging it on appeal.
Mr Kanu is asking the court to redress his infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition from Kenya by the federal government.
