Nigeria, July 28 -- Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a former counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has responded to his disengagement by the IPOB leader. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mr Kanu, through a letter dated 22 July, informed Mr Ejiofor that he had been disengaged as his lawyer. The IPOB leader also warned the lawyer to refrain entirely from making any public statements on his behalf, his family, or the separatist group, or from acting as his or IPOB's legal representative.

Reacting in a statement posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Mr Ejiofor said he had long disengaged himself from serving as Mr Kanu's legal representative.

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