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Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, claimed on Wednesday that unnamed leaders in the South-East had spent several millions of Naira to cause confusion in the group.
Ejiofor, who stated this in a statement on his Facebook page, however, said Kanu’s legal team would not be deterred by the development.
He called for unity among the pro-Biafra groups.
It would be recalled that members of IPOB were divided on the sit-at-order issued by the group in the South-East.
IPOB had in a statement issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, ordered a Monday sit-at-home in the South-East in a bid to force the Federal Government to withdraw all the charges against Kanu and release him from detention.
However, after pleas from stakeholders and elders in the region, the younger brother of the IPOB leader, Kanunta Kanu, suspended the sit-at-home directive, citing the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations for Junior Secondary School students in the region as the major reason for the decision.
However, the development did not go down well with the IPOB spokesman and his loyalists who insisted that the sit-at-home directive must be observed by people of the South-East.
Following the development, the IPOB Directorate of State (DOS), called off the sit-at-home order, saying it would only be observed any day the IPOB leader would appear in court.
In the statement, Ejiofor urged the members of the group to conti…
