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Biafra: IPOB Disowns Nnamdi Kanu’s Wife on Change of Lawyer

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: January 18, 2016
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Radio Biafra Director Nnamdi Kanu’s group and family members have distanced themselves from his wife’s recent decision to change his lawyer, Mr. Vincent Obetta.

Mrs Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, according to THE SUN had, in a paid advertorial published in a national daily on Sunday announced the change of Mr. Obeta who had been lawyer to Kanu with Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofo.

Mrs Okwu-Kanu had claimed that the decision to appoint a new lawyer for her husband was taken at a meeting of the IPOB held on January 9, at Forest Gate, East London.

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Howver Deputy Director of IPOB, Mr. Alphonsus Uche-Mefor, said IPOB has not taken any decision to change Vincent Obeta as his wife’s lead counsel defending its leader who is standing trial on charges bordering on treasonable felony.

Also Mefor and Kanu’s brother, Mr. Kingsley Kanunta Okwu-Kanu, said they were at the said meeting and IPOB never took the decision to change Obeta as the counsel to its leader.

They insisted Obeta has, so far, done very well in the representation of Kanu in court, saying IPOB has no intention to change him now.

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