Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Newsone reports that the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has reportedly been removed as the Director of the organization, and replaced with the IPOB United Kingdom (UK) National Financial Secretary, Sofia Chinyere Kalu.
This online news platform understands that Sofia Chinyere Kalu’s announcement as the new Director of IPOB worldwide to replace the detained Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was made by Ezeji Chukwuma, a separatist who manages IPOB and Radio Biafra Community Interest Companies (CIC) Registry in London, the United Kingdom (UK).
Biafra agitators.
Newsone Nigeria reports that the development in the IPOB was confirmed by Simon Ekpa, a Finnish politician and Biafra agitator in a post on the micro-blogging site, Twitter.
Ekpa who had in the past claimed to be Nnamdi Kanu’s anointed replacement, questioned the decision to replace Nnamdi Kanu as IPOB leader worldwide.
“Who are those who removed Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from being the leader of Indigenous people of Biafra worldwide?
“In few minutes time the exposition of those behind the removal of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will begin, we will also address Umahi the former Governor of Ebonyi State. 8pm Biafra”, Ekpa tweeted.
Meanwhile, a fact check by Newsone Nigeria shows that Sofia Chinyere Kalu, the person who has allegedly taken over from Nnamdi Kanu, is a Human Rights Advocate who is the Zonal Coordinator of IPOB Greater Manchester & Preston Family and National Financial Officer of the secessionist group.
Sofia Chinyere Kalu’s father is an Igbo man from Nigeria, while her mother is South African. She is married to an Igbo man.
Questioning Kalu’s emergence in a live broadcast monitored by this Newsone Nigeria reporter, Ekpa alleged that: “they want to use a woman who knows nothing about the Biafran struggle to destroy Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”.
The Biafra activist said on paper, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since June 2021, has been removed as the leader of IPOB. He cited a March 5, 2022 Memo to IPOB UK members by its Directorate of States (DoS), headed by Chika Edoziem.