Labeling Igbos, IPOB members terrorist sponsors flawed – Ejimakor to Nigerian govt

Legal counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Aloy Ejimakor, has argued that branding IPOB arsenic a violent sponsor is fundamentally flawed and unjustifiable.

Ejimakor made this known successful a connection connected his X relationship connected Wednesday.

Recall that the Nigerian authorities precocious released a list of 48 violent sponsors with IPOB named.

The Nigerian government’s determination comes amid a renewed question of insecurity successful the country, with respective subject officers losing their lives to terrorists.

Reacting, Ejimakor maintained that each autochthonal of the erstwhile Eastern Nigeria, commonly referred to arsenic Biafra oregon Ndịgbo, is inherently a subordinate of IPOB by taste identity.

“This Truth is Self-Evident: Every autochthonal of erstwhile Eastern Nigeria/Biafra (or NNdigbo) is ethnically a bonafide MEMBER of the Indigenous People of Biafra,” helium wrote.

He further argued that labeling IPOB arsenic a violent sponsor is equivalent to categorizing different determination socio-cultural identities arsenic violent groups, describing specified a determination arsenic a “misnomer that cannot stand.”

Ejimakor drew parallels with groups representing different regions, suggesting that tagging IPOB successful specified a mode would beryllium ...