SAHARA REPORTERS
Ekpa revealed this during a special episode of 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo on Tuesday.
The self-proclaimed “Prime Minister of the Biafra Government in Exile,” Simon Ekpa, has said he will not heed calls from incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to put an end to the sit-at-home currently being enforced across the southeastern region every Monday.
Ekpa revealed this during a special episode of 90MinutesAfrica hosted by Rudolf Okonkwo on Tuesday.
“I won’t listen to Nnamdi Kanu’s instructions to end sit-at-home,” the Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator stated. “I will only listen to him not just when he becomes a freeman, but he has to come to Finland to tell me face to face,” he said.
In July 2023, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in a letter read to the media by his special counsel, Aloy Ajimakor, instructed Simon Ekpa to “desist from calling any sit-at-home forthwith.” The IPOB leader further stated that anyone who continues the enforcement of sit-at-home in the southeast is not his disciple.
However, the self-proclaimed “Prime Minister of the Biafra Government in Exile” said that the only condition for him to listen to such an instruction is that Nnamdi Kanu “has to come to Finland and sit one-on-one with me.”
“That is my condition,” Mr. Ekpa declared. “Even if they bring him out today and he stays in Nigeria and says Simon Ekpa, stop, I’m not going to stop,” he vowed.
Simon Ekpa explained that the sit-at-home exercise was a pathway to Biafra freedom. He insisted it has succeeded in “crushing the economy of Nigeria, delegitimizing the Nigerian government in Biafra land and demonstrating that the people don’t listen to Nigerian authorities anymore.”
“We are using four different mechanisms to pursue the freedom of Biafra,” he stated.
