{"id":93357,"date":"2023-08-01T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/simon-ekpa-ipob-sacks-nnamdi-kanus-counsel-ejimakor"},"modified":"2023-08-01T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T22:37:47","slug":"simon-ekpa-ipob-sacks-nnamdi-kanus-counsel-ejimakor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/simon-ekpa-ipob-sacks-nnamdi-kanus-counsel-ejimakor","title":{"rendered":"Simon Ekpa: IPOB sacks Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s counsel, Ejimakor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has sacked Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.<\/p>\n

IPOB in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday, announced that Ejimafor has ceased to be Kanu\u2019s counsel.<\/p>\n

Emma Powerful said, \u201cThe IPOB leadership and the DOS henceforth declare Barr. Ejimakor a persona non grata. He must desist from parading himself as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s counsel from this day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group faulted Ejimafor\u2019s public claim that Simon Ekpa and his supporters are followers of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cEjimakor never meant well for Nnamdi Kanu but was only obsessed with how he could use the position of Special Counsel for personal aggrandisement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cEjimakor 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarrister 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\u2019s modus operandi\u201d, the statement stated.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has sacked Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s 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\u2019s counsel. Emma Powerful said, \u201cThe IPOB leadership and the DOS henceforth declare Barr. 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