The Kanu’s family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu says, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor still remains the Lawyer representing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB.
Kanu’s senior brother, Prince Kingsley Kanunta Kanu had in a Press release issued Wednesday said, “Late yesterday, the attention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu family was drawn to publications in a few newspapers, stating that the IPOB has sacked Barrister Aloy Ejimakor as a Lawyer representing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB. The publications were based on a Press Statement ostensibly released late yesterday (1st August, 2923) by Comrade Emma Powerful, the Media & Publicity Secretary of IPOB.
“By this Press Release, we, the family of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu state categorically that the Press Statement by the said Emma Powerful is false and defamatory in its entirety and accordingly, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor has not been sacked as a Special Counsel to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB. He thus remains such Special Counsel in good standing until Mazi Nnamdi Kanu says otherwise”.
According to the family, “For the avoidance of any doubt, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor personally and physically met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu just days ago on 24th July, 2023. And on 27th July, 2023, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu met with my younger sibling. The main event of both visitations was the standing Direct Order of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on termination of Sit-At-Home which he had issued through Barrister Aloy Ejimakor on 24th July”.
“Ejimakor was not hired or retained by Emma Powerful or Department of State of IPOB (DOS) which Powerful stated he was speaking for. Instead, it was Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (in his official capacity as Supreme Leader of IPOB) that hired Barr Ejimakor in late 2017. So, unless Emma Powerful and DOS believe that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has become vegetative (as they once rumored), how can they suddenly begin to make decisions for him?”
“To be sure, what is propelling the DOS is the same animus and jealousy that had propelled them to mess up the first direct order issued by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in 2021, terminating the Sit-At-Home. The DOS was driven mad with jealousy and envy that the order was delivered to, and announced by my humble self (Prince Kingsley Kanunta Kanu) instead of by the DOS, and for this reason alone the DOS sabotaged that initial effort by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to terminate the Sit-At-Home.
“This time around, they have become more vicious in their rage against Barrister Ejimakor, simply because Barrister Ejimakor delivered his message so effectively that it has finally ended the Sit-At-Home, as Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had long desired, but which the pathetic DOS could not accomplish despite Mazi Nnamdi Kanu giving them several opportunities to do so.
“So, the DOS that is twsting these intelligent remarks out of context should ask themselves these questions: Who are the Apples and Oranges if Barr Ejmakor really meant that there is absolutely no difference in followership? Who are those that call themselves disciples that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had alluded to in the Sit-At-Hime termination order? And why would Mazi Nnamdi Kanu issue the order to Simon Ekpa if he considers Simon as someone that is not under his command and control?
“It is pertinent to state that since Mazi Nnamdi Kanu retained the legal services of Barrister Ejimakor in late 2017, it has been a season of landmark victones singlehandedly won by him.
“In addition to these victories, Barrister Ejimakor is also directly and single-handedly handling other complex briefs, including the one before the British High Commission and the African Union and he is the only Counsel appointed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to liaise with lawyers and others handling MNK/IPOB cases in America, in the UK, in Kenya and the United Nations. There are also four major cases (that are still pending) that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu personally assigned to him to handle alone for the IPOB.
“If you claim that you have sacked Barrister Ejimakor, have you appointed another Special Counsel to take his place and handle these tough cases and assignments currently under his belt? Or is it that your sinister intention is to dredge up a phantom sack as a means of complicating the ability of Barrister Ejimakor to win the cases he is currently doing for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the real, loyal IPOB rank and file?
“In conclusion, it needs to be made clear that in all the cases handled by Barrister Ejimakor, the IPOB or a member of IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi are the only parties. And where IPOB is not a party, it is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that is the party and it is only because he is the Supreme Leader of IPOB; so, in that sense, it is still an IPOB case with Barr Ejimakor as its vanguard.
“Therefore, this DOS sacking of Barnster Ejimakor, even so laughable and ineffectual, is a clumsy attempt by DOS at biting its nose to spite its face. In other words, it is a senseless attempt at self-immolation of the real IPOB and we wil not allow it to happen”.
Reacting through his verified Twitter handle, Barr Ejimakor said, “If the hidden agenda is to distract me from deploying my media presence to keep Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the spotlight, sorry, it won’t work. My Brief is not confined to the courtroom; it includes using the media to push IPOB issues.
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