Nnamdi Kanu Not Planning To Disband Legal team, Says Lawyer

The lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ifeanyi Ejiofor has said his client does not intend to reshuffle his legal team handling the terrorism charge preferred against him by the federal government.

Adeyemi Adegoke Olumide  had claimed in an opinion piece that Kanu contemplated changing his legal team.

Olumide alleged that the IPOB leader sought to make the move due to trust issues.

Denying the claims in a statement on Monday, Ejiofor said Kanu was “visibly shocked to the marrow by the news”

He said the IPOB leader has an “unshaken and absolute confidence in his legal team” and appreciates the efforts of the members.

“At no time did he ever contemplate, nor did it ever cross his imagination to reshuffle his legal team. Neither did he ever discuss with anybody, nor any member of his legal team or relatives, that he wanted to reshuffle or disband his legal team,” Ejiofor said.

“That the narrative desperately being pushed by the 5th columnists, was aimed at defaming, disparaging, embarrassing, provoking and frustrating his erudite Lead Counsel – Prof. Ozekhome, SAN, into abandoning him, on the purported premise that the offending publications were hatched by Onyendu.

“Onyendu reiterated his unshaken and absolute confidence in his legal team ably led by Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and further stated that he deeply appreciates the untiring and unmatchable efforts of Prof. Ozekhome SAN, towards securing his unconditional release from the dungeon of the DSS, having been discharged, and his further detention prohibited by the Court of Appeal since the 13th day of October 2022.

“That he is constantly in touch with Prof. Ozekhome, SAN, on every routine visit, on the update in his cases, which updates he usually received through my humble self, or the legal iroko himself.”