IPOB, Lawyer Attack Orji Kalu Over Claim Kanu Has Fled Nigeria

Eminent businessman and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, was on Sunday lambasted by the Indigenous People of Biafra and Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer to the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
Kalu was attacked by IPOB and the lawyer over his claim that Kanu had fled to the United Kingdom via Malaysia.

Kalu made the claim in an interview he granted Sunday Punch and which was reported by The Eagle Online.
Ejiofor in a statement on Sunday said Kalu was a drowning man seeking relevance from the Federal Government and relief from prosecution for corruption.
He said: “He has since outlived his usefulness in Igboland.
“What do you expect from a man who is enjoying a temporary freedom and struggling to get his head out of grievous corruption charges hanging on his neck?
“He saw Nnamdi Kanu’s travail as an opportunity to seek relevance from the prosecuting authorities.
“At some time, he attempted deceiving the state into believing that he had the magic wand to Nnamdi Kanu’s peaceful agitation.
“Now, he has turned into government/military spokesperson.

“Please ask that confused man if he was in the company with the rampaging soldiers at the time of their murderous invasion of my client’s home?”
Reacting through its spokesman, Emma Powerful, to Kanu’s claim, IPOB said: “His (Kalu’s) spurious claim that the overall leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has made his way to London via Malaysia, is a confirmation that he would do or say anything to escape his ongoing corruption scandal.
“Worse still, he might be a hapless victim of a well orchestrated blackmail by his Hausa/Fulani Islamic masters or on hallucinogenic drugs.”

IPOB accused Kalu of selling the collective interest of the Igbo and by extension that of Biafra to non-Igbo, adding: “It didn’t start today but their era is coming to an end.”
Powerful said with the accurate record keeping of both the United Kingdom and Malaysia, verifying if Kanu travelled through or to any of the two countries should not be difficult.

He said: “Both the United Kingdom and Malaysia are civilised countries and not as corrupt as Nigeria, where there is no accurate record of migration in and out of the country.
‘‘What Orji Uzor Kalu is saying in essence is that the United Kingdom government officials are lying when they rightfully demanded the whereabouts of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

“For the information of those who may have fallen for the barefaced lies of Orji Uzor Kalu, United Kingdom is an island and near impossible to enter without being documented.
“If our leader is in the UK, their government will not bother demanding that he be produced by the Buhari regime.”

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