By Ifeizu Joe
Ex lawyer of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor has threatened to sue followers of Nnamdi Kanu for alleging he was paid for his services as lawyer to the detained separatist agitator.
Ejiofor said his services were rendered on probono basis, while charging those making the accusation to present proof.
He also stated that allegations that he wrote a petition against Kanu’s appeal were all falsehood. He made this claims in a post he made on Facebook on Thursday morning.
Post below…
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME
I wish to reiterate that I have stated publicly, emphatically, unequivocally, and repeatedly that any person who possesses evidence of the payment of my professional fees throughout the years I led Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team in court should produce such verifiable evidence and make it public. My legal services to him remain strictly pro bono. This is at least the third year I have restated this position, and no one has been able to muster even the minutest scintilla of evidence to the contrary.
However, it was recently brought to my attention that certain individuals who have publicly claimed to have visited Nnamdi Kanu at the Sokoto Correctional Centre have also alleged, on their various platforms, that I was in fact paid for my legal services to him and that they possess proof of such payments.
In a further descent into the theatre of the absurd, these same individuals have gone so far as to mischievously allege that I authored a petition against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s pending appeal before the Court of Appeal.
As laughable and bizarre as these unfounded claims are-claims that defy every known canon of logic and reason, these purveyors of falsehood ought by now to appreciate the grave damage their reckless utterances inflict on the said matter.
Ordinarily, I would have ignored these charlatans rather than dignify their manifest falsehoods with a response. However, it is a well-known principle that when a lie is repeated often enough, it may begin to assume the garb of truth in the minds of the unwary. Silence, in such circumstances, may be misconstrued.
It is in light of the foregoing that I hereby issue this public notice to the duo of Obinna (a.k.a. Methuselah Nwanne Chineke) and Immanuel Joshbriliem Joshua (a.k.a. Bishop JCI) to immediately publish the evidence in support of their sundry allegations.
In the unlikely event that they fail, refuse, or neglect to do so, I shall be constrained to activate all available legal remedies to hold them accountable within the full ambit of the law.
Let it be clearly understood that reckless falsehood, once it crosses the bounds of decency and law, inevitably attracts lawful consequences.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
@EjioforBar
March 5, 2026
