Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, fired his legal team shortly after his attempt to be released from detention was unsuccessful. According to a source who spoke with Vanguard, the legal team, which is headed by a prominent Nigerian lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was formally informed of the change in representation.
The source said; “It is true that shortly after the supreme court ruling Nnamdi Ejimakor and Nnameka Ejiofor met with our leader and he asked them to formally write the termination of the legal contract and give it to the lead counsel. They have already done that and the Senior Advocate of Nigeria has received the letter terminating the contract.
“In place of the former legal team leader, Nnamdi Kanu has approached another legal luminary from Cross River State to be holding briefs for him. They met recently and had some discussions on how best to handle his legal matters going forward but it is not clear if the former chief legal officer for Nigeria will agree to take up the brief.”
The incarcerated IPOB leader also revealed that he had dissolved his legal team because he felt they had not done enough to end his case and release him from a life of confinement.
According to reports, he has lost trust in the legal team, which has also failed to convince him to be moved from the Department of State Services cell to the Kuje Correctional Service, where he would be able to interact with his friends and family more freely.
Kanu is also rumoured to be dissatisfied with his medical team, believing that they haven’t done enough to provide a compelling medical report that would allow him to shift his treatment from the DSS hospital and physicians to his preferred private physicians outside of Nigeria.
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