Mikar Ojokoro, a human rights advocate, has criticized the threats and defamatory comments made by Simon Ekpa against Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a legal counsel to IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as disrespectful and inappropriate.
Ojokoro accused Ekpa of “dishing out tissues of lies on social media about Ejiofor and the IPOB leader through his blog for the purpose of maligning Kanu and his legal team” in a statement made accessible to Newsmen.
According to him, Ekpa was cited on YouTube as saying, “We have terminated DOS; Ejiofor and the legal team have compromised.” Ejiofor and DOS are both employed by the Nigerian government. We don’t take orders from anyone in the DSS dungeon, referring to Kanu and mocking Kanu’s orders to stop the sit at home.”
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While describing Ejiofor as a brilliant and courageous lawyer, who has been endangering his own life defending Kanu and thousands of Igbo young men and women, the activist noted that a few defamation suits would soon be “filed in the courts against Ekpa and his co-traducers.”
The statement read: “Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor and his team of lawyers have been defending Mazi Kanu and thousands of others identified as Biafrans in cases which most lawyers in Nigeria would not want to touch for fear of being targeted by the Nigerian government forces.
“There are video evidence and court judgments to show that Ejiofor and many of his clients who have been identified as indigenous persons of Biafra have been victims of police brutality on many occasions. The most recent lethal invasion of Ejiofor’s residence at night time shortly before Kanu was kidnapped left many with the conclusion that the attack was meant to scare away other lawyers from defending Kanu if Ejiofor is out of the way.
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“With all these, I find the action of some gullible Igbo who are clapping over the threat against Ejiofor as very offensive and unacceptable. Are some Igbo persons this fickle-minded and capricious with no emotional intelligence to decode a series of inconsistent lies and deceptions being sold to them by Ekpa?”
Ojokoro further alleged that Ekpa has been plotting to depose Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and seize control of IPOB.
According to him, he has been launching vitriolic attacks against Kanu in order to achieve this solitary goal, but he lamented that only the gullible would recognize the deception and lies in the information he has been disseminating.
“Simon Ekpa has been laying the foundation to attack Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and he is already doing so in such a constructive reversed psychology by a number of his broadcast on his YouTube platform, where he said that Kanu was going to end up like Raph Uwazurike and that he is the better anointed David than Kanu, whom he labelled as Saul. He also boasted that he has done what Kanu has never done and that Kanu needs him more than he needs him.”
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He remembered how Ekpa attacked the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Rev Dr Enoja, who had tried to bring Ekpa to order through his spokesperson over the nonsensical and unlawful enforcement of the sit-at-home, which Kanu had ordered from the DSS detention to halt.
Instead of listening to the bishop’s good guidance, he boasted that he would not obey instructions from anyone in DSS custody and that his own version of IPOB called Autopilot was the original.
He bemoaned Ekpa’s use of Kanu’s ordeal to spread unsubstantiated accusations about the IPOB leader, while everyone who tried to bring him to order was labeled a traitor.
Ojokoro also warned Oduduwa Republic agitators like Prof Banji Akintoye and Dr Sunday Adeyemo to be wary of some people who pose as autopilots and Biafra spokesmen, saying that “such ectoparasitic names and positions only exist in the criminal world but are non-existent in the actual Biafra independence restoration movement led by Kanu.”
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The rights advocate accused Ekpa of deceiving the teeming Igbo population that believes in the realization of Biafra, dismissing the self-proclaimed autopilot leader’s comment that Biafra would come in 122 days or less.
“I will be a fool if I don’t have the inherent responsibility to ask the person how that would happen, the strategy, and the process. This does not mean that we don’t believe in miracles or understand the things of the spirit; yes, we do but that is not the issue here. Ekpa cannot be claiming that he would bring Biafra to reality in 122 days, and at the same time calling for a conference to teach the Biafrans how to seek asylum in a foreign land; that is insanity,” he submitted.
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