IPOB dumps Kanu

IPOB’s head of Directorate of State, Mazi Chika Edoziem, has been announced as the new leader of the separatist group.

A statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said Edoziem would hand over the leadership role to Kanu when he is released.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (DOS), headed by Mazi Chika Edoziem, is at the helm of affairs of the Biafra movement; whenever our leader Mazi Nnamdi KANU comes out, he hands over IPOB structure back to him.”

Edoziem is believed to be the deputy leader of IPOB.

Kanu is currently locked up by the Department of State Services, DSS.

Kanu has been standing trial since he was parceled back to Nigeria form Kenya, after jumping bail in 2017.