The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has sacked Nnamdi Kanu’s counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.
IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday, announced that Ejimafor has ceased to be Kanu’s counsel.
Emma Powerful said, “The IPOB leadership and the DOS henceforth declare Barr. Ejimakor a persona non grata. He must desist from parading himself as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s counsel from this day.”
The group faulted Ejimafor’s public claim that Simon Ekpa and his supporters are followers of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
“Therefore, for Barr Ejimakor and others to insinuate that Simon Ekpa has any connection with Kanu and IPOB is not only mischievous, but playing the script of his sponsors, which we the IPOB family are very much aware of because we know his antecedents.
“Ejimakor never meant well for Nnamdi Kanu but was only obsessed with how he could use the position of Special Counsel for personal aggrandisement.”
Powerful noted that Barr Ejimakor is just one of the lawyers contracted to handle specific cases for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. He is not and has never been, for the avoidance of doubt, the legal representative of the Indigenous People of Biafra as a movement, The Nation reports.
“Ejimakor is not an IPOB member and has no reason to meddle into our operations beyond the special legal matters that he was contracted to handle.
“Barrister Ejimakor attempted to export his lack of knowledge of the inner workings of IPOB and his confused state of mind to the general public because he has no idea of what IPOB is fighting for and does not know IPOB’s modus operandi”, the statement stated.
