Jonathan Nwokpor
Ejiofor said this on Monday in a statement headed “Crucial Clarifications Regarding The Case/Trial of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq., the attorney for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has claimed that he dodged five assassination attempts under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ejiofor said this on Monday in a statement entitled “Crucial Clarifications Regarding The Case/Trial of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”
He disclosed that during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, he “escaped five assassination attempts by those who were on a specific instruction to kill him at all cost”.
He said that his defence of Nnamdi Kanu and Ezigbo Umuchineke (IPOB) was the reason, not that he was a criminal.
“I joined Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team in December 2015 and eventually took on the role of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s lead Counsel and also as the IPOB General/Lead Counsel in January 2016,” he said, adding, “Since 2015, I have diligently performed my professional duties in defending Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB while upholding ethical standards.”
“Despite achieving significant and unprecedented victories/milestones in securing the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other comrades in 2017 and 2018, respectively, I have also worked tirelessly to secure the release of numerous IPOB members from detention facilities – both at the federal and state levels – possibly numbering in their thousands.”
He claimed that his efforts were not in vain and that he was the target of numerous extreme attempts to assassinate him by both state and non-state actors. One such attempt was the incursion by Nigerian security forces into his ancestral home in Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area, Anambra State.
He said the “murderous operation was bankrolled by a monster from his town”.
He said, “During this operation, many civilians were murdered in their prime and over 30 houses were burnt, all in a bid to eliminate me at all costs and by any means for being Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Attorney and IPOB Lead counsel.
“Since their evil mission was not completely accomplished on the 2nd of December 2019, another bloody invasion of my ancestral home was carried out in June 2021, this time with specifics, confirming my availability at the time of the invasion.
“Acting on this strong lead, my house was invaded at the wee hours of the morning of 6th of June 2021, and my personal assistant in the person of Mr Samuel Okoro was gruesomely murdered, his dead body dumped in the boot of my car and subsequently set ablaze at Neni, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State.
“Three of my wards, to wit, Ugochukwu Lawrence, Felix Okafor and Ikenna Chibuike, abducted during this bloody invasion, are still in detention to date, even as I struggle day in and day out to secure their release. Between the years 2015 and 2021, I escaped five consecutive brutal assassination attempts ostensibly carried out by those who were on specific instruction to kill me by any means and at all cost, not because I am a criminal but because I was defending Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Ezigbo Umuchineke.”
Ejiofor went on to say that the people who were trying to assassinate him had not given up.
He claimed that their methods and names had been made public, exposing them as ordinary people who had turned to cult funding to carry out their assassination plots.
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