Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has fired his legal team just after losing his bid to be freed from continued detention.
Vanguard reported that a source revealed that the change of legal team was officially communicated to the legal team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a vocal legal luminary.
The source said: “It is true that shortly after the Supreme Court ruling Nnamdi Ejimakor and Nnameka Ejiofor met with our leader and he asked them to formally write the termination of the legal contract and give it to the lead counsel. They have already done that and the Senior Advocate of Nigeria has received the letter terminating the contract.
“In place of the former legal team leader, Nnamdi Kanu has approached another legal luminary from Cross River State to be holding briefs for him. They met recently and had some discussions on how best to handle his legal matters going forward but it is not clear if the former chief legal officer for Nigeria will agree to take up the brief.”
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It was further revealed that Kanu disbanded his legal team because he felt they underperformed in quashing his case and freeing him from continuous incarceration.
He has lost faith in the legal team, which has also not been able to present a strong case to at least transfer him from the Department of State Services cell to the Kuje Correctional Service where he would have more freedom to connect with his friends and relatives.
He is also unhappy with his medical team, which he believes has not done enough to tender a convincing medical report that could speed up the transfer of his treatment from the DSS hospital and doctors to his selected private doctors outside Nigeria.
