Kanu’s Note: It’s fake, we are not taking orders from our leader who is incarcerated —Simon Ekpa

Abuja, NIGERIA — Finland based Biafra agitator and separatist Simon Ekpa, has asked the Igbo to disregard reports making the rounds on a purported letter from the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Ekpa, the Finland-based lawyer and self-acclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government, disclosed this on Friday.

Ekpa, however, said the letter was fake and untrue.

Recalled that Ekpa had said IPOB will no longer take orders from Nnamdi Kanu.

According to him, the letter is from mischief-makers who do not want Biafra’s liberation.

Reiterating his call for the release of Kanu to ensure lasting peace in the southeast, he said: “Our attention has been drawn to the fake letter from the pit of hell being paraded by Nigerian media claiming that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wrote a letter. It is not only a joke but an insult taken too far that the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra is being misrepresented in this way. As the Prime Minister of Biafra under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, I call on all Biafrans to disregard the fake letter coming from DSS.”

Recently, Ekpa had said the group would no longer take orders from Kanu because he is incarcerated.

He, however, noted that members would push for Kanu’s unconditional release.

He wrote: “We have entered the liberation phase of Biafra Nation & we are not taking orders from our leader who is incarcerated.”

“Our duty is to do everything to secure his unconditional release and to restore and liberate Biafra from Nigeria. Our freedom from Nigeria is non-negotiable.

Those who do not understand this message, what it simply means is that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will not be held responsible for the actions of Biafra people as we have entered the liberation. So, the order of the liberation of Biafra and to secure his release can not be used against him.”