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NNAMDI KANU’S LAWYER, IFEANYI EJIOFOR, IS DEEPLY ENTANGLED: HOW IT WILL LIKELY END

(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

(Due process advocate)

10th Feb 2022


https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/02/nnamdi-kanus-lawyer-ifeanyi-ejiofor-is.html?m=1

Let us start from what we know for a certain, and from there we get to what we believe and can analyze. I want the reader to understand my process of presentation. We start from the certain truth and continue to the analytical truth, and from there to hypothesis and conjectural truth. It is easy to understand my writing and my presentation.



A certain truth is truth that does not depend on what I think or what you think. It is there for any person with eyes to see. Analytic truth is truth that you get to if you use your mind and connect certain truths. A certain truth requires the use of one of the five senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling by touching). An analytic truth, on the other hand, requires the use of the 6th sense, which is analytic sense. For instance: “2 + 2” (certain truth) “= 4” (analytic truth). You have 2 and 2, which is a certain truth. But what about “= 4”? “2 + 2” is certain truth. You can see the two numbers with your eyes. But you can’t see “=4” with your eyes. It is when you analyze the certain truth “2 + 2” that you will arrive at the other truth (the analytic truth), “=4”. So, “= 4” is analytic truth. So, in understanding the situation with Nnamdi Kanu case and Barrister Ejiofor’s legal problems, we have to combine the certain truth and get to the analytic truth.



CERTAIN TRUTH:

(1) “On the 28th of May, 2008, Barrister Ejiofor obtained the sum of N5,600,000 from one Mr. Ikechukwu Okpala under a false pretense”. He defrauded the man. He forged Power of Attorney and Deed of Assignment. Then he tried to use the forged document to steal somebody’s land. Finally, when he was caught, he tried to pay back the money, but he did that fraudulently too, by issuing a dud cheque. These acts exposed Ejiofor to legal jeopardy, which means that he knew in his conscience that he might be caught and if caught, he would be prosecuted, and if prosecuted, he would probably go to prison for up to 15 years. (This is certain truth because it is contained in the Charge pending against Ejiofor in FCT High Court No. 3, Maitama, Abuja).



(2) As a reasonable person would expect, the above actions of Ejiofor were reported to EFCC in 2015. In other words, for 7 years, Ejiofor failed to give Mr. Ikechukwu Okpala back his money (because Ejiofor already “ate” the money and did not have money to pay back). The EFCC arrested Ejiofor, obtained damaging and implicating statements from Ejiofor). And in 2016, the EFCC filed five-counts criminal indictment against Ejiofor. And from that moment, Ejiofor was standing trial for fraud and forgery, with very damaging evidence and admissions from him. (This is a certain truth too).



(3) In the same 2016, Nnamdi Kanu, who was arrested in October of 2015, engaged the services of Ejiofor, not knowing that Ejiofor was facing criminal charges and that Ejiofor had made damaging and self-implicating admissions to the EFCC and was actually begging EFCC for a plea bargain. Also, Ejiofor failed to inform either Nnamdi Kanu or anyone close to him that he (Ejiofor) was at the mercy of the same Nigerian Government and that he might not be able to fight the Government in any case involving treasonable or terrorism charges. (This is also a certain truth).



(4) Between 2016 and present, Ejiofor acted as Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer and as lawyer for IPOB in very sensitive cases where he ought to be fighting the Nigerian government and seeking to hold the government to the tenets of the constitution. In his capacity as Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Ejiofor ought to be able to challenge the government without any appearance of fear or favor. (This is also a certain fact, based on our knowledge of the role of a defense lawyer in criminal cases – He fights the government, more so in politically sensitive trials like trials for treason and terrorism).



(5) We also know as a fact that with IPOB proscribed, Ejiofor actually became the only visible representative of IPOB in Nigeria. Nobody else actually could publicly speak for IPOB without risking an arrest since IPOB was proscribed. So, for four years, the only person that could formally answer for IPOB was Ejiofor. He was indeed their operational head. He went beyond the bounds of lawyer’s professional responsibility. It would have been so easy for DSS to indict him for the same offenses he was supposed to be defending IPOB members against. (This is a also a statement of fact).



ANALYTIC TRUTH:

(1) With the criminal case where Ejiofor was already begging for plea bargain, he could not be free and independent enough to challenge the government on anything serious. You cannot fight against a government you are at its mercy. There is a clear conflict between the interest of Ejiofor (which is to please the government and get a plea bargain for himself) and the interest of Nnamdi Kanu in his criminal defense (which is to challenge the government and defeat the government in court). In normal scenario, this is how a plea bargain discussion goes: Ejiofor would ask the EFCC to give him a plea bargain on favorable terms. The EFCC would ask him: “And what do we get from you in return”? It is possible that Ejiofor would say: “I can help you get Nnamdi Kanu and destroy IPOB”. It is reasonable to know that Ejiofor would rather cooperate with the Government of Nigeria than to fight the Government. (It is analytically sound to believe, therefore, that Ejiofor did what every rational person in his circumstance would do, which was to try everything he could to please and appease the Government of Nigeria and to offer the Government anything he could, including to offer the Government the head of Nnamdi Kanu on a wooden plate).



(2) To present this in a dramatic and easy to understand fashion: The government will squeeze Ejiofor balls and Ejiofor will try to squeeze Nnamdi Kanu’s balls. You don’t get a plea bargain free of charge. You must give something to the government in order to get something in return. What does Ejiofor offer the government for the bargain he is expecting from them?



(3) It is also analytically true that the intelligence used by the Nigerian Government in dealing with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB involved insider information. It is analytically true that the Nigerian secret service would not have known by themselves the details of Nnamdi Kanu’s movement from UK to Kenya and his movement within Nairobi unless someone gave them help. In fact, after Nnamdi Kanu was brought into Nigeria on June 29, 2021, the Nigerian Attorney General reported that it was as a result of collaborative efforts of partners. He made it clear that they did not do it alone. Who then did they work with? Kenyan Government initially denied any knowledge of the operation. Also, Nnamdi Kanu never revealed publicly that he was in Nairobi. That was information tightly known within the inner circle of IPOB. Who then among IPOB leaders would have a reason to cooperate with the Nigerian Government with such a high prized asset like the arrest of the leader of IPOB?



(4) There are multiple indicators that Nigerian Government could have been working with Ifeanyi Ejiofor. There are indications that Ejiofor was being handled by deep intelligence operators within the Nigerian secret services. Let me suggest some of the indicators:



(a) In December of 2019, Ejiofor was declared wanted by the Nigeria police for the events that lead to the killing of two police officers in Anambra State. The whole world knew that the police declared Ejiofor wanted. But what happened after that? Was Ejiofor ever arrested? Have you ever seen a situation where the police would go to the press and declare a person wanted for killing two senior police officers, and then never follow up? That sounds like some internal intervention. Somebody powerful must have sent a message to the police to say: “We need Ejiofor. He is useful to us. Don’t touch him yet. But gather the evidence you have on the murder case and let’s use it as additional pressure point on him”. Otherwise, please explain to me why Ejiofor would be declared wanted by the police for the death of two police officers and nothing was ever heard about it.



(b) Once IPOB became proscribed, all its activities became illegal under Nigerian law. Yes, Ejiofor is a lawyer and could be said to be acting as a lawyer. But it was clear that Ejiofor was not only a lawyer to IPOB. He was their spokesman. He was in touch not only with Nnamdi Kanu, but other leaders of IPOB. He was receiving money from them. Indeed, IPOB made it possible for Ejiofor to buy new cars, buy new suits, and even build a house. In 2015, Ejiofor was too poor to refund the money of Mr. Ikechukwu Okpala, even when faced with the prospects of arrest and prosecution for fraud. Yet, today the same Ejiofor managed to finance a chieftaincy tittle for himself. He even saw himself able to challenge Emeka Offor and publicly call Emeka Offor an idiot. That was the same Emeka Offor that paid his school fees. So, Ejiofor was not just a lawyer for IPOB. He has been their de facto leader. He used IPOB assets under his command. He would mobilize IPOB youths and use them as body guards to intimidate his village people, which led to the annoyance of Emeka Offor and the involvement of the Nigerian police. Ejiofor also used other tactical and operational assets of IPOB at will. For instance, Ejiofor knew the secret behind the name “Emma Powerful”. He knew that that was only an Alias which many people wrongly believed was a human being in the office of spokesperson for IPOB. Emma Powerful is an alias sold to the world as a real human being. Any of the inner circle of IPOB could make a statement and pass it off as a statement from IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful. If you doubt this, tell me who is Emma Powerful. We know others. We know Simon Okpa. We know which country he lives in. He is vocal and active. But do you know Emma Powerful? Have you even seen Emma Powerful? Where does he live? What does he look like? Emma Powerful is just an alias and Ejiofor used that name as he pleased. The fact is that the DSS and NIA operatives know this and that has been part of the scheme. Otherwise, they would have arrested Ejiofor for being an active operator of IPOB.



(c) If you remember well, in early 2020, Rambo of DPA revealed that there were signs that the Nigerian intelligence were actively operating within the IPOB ranks. If you think, you will remember when Rambo argued that IPOB was captured and that an element of its leadership were already under the control of the Nigerian intelligence. Many of you did not understand Rambo. At that time, it was not clear the intelligence handle within the top ranks of IPOB. Now, it is clearer. We now know that a key IPOB figure (its lawyer) has always been at the mercy of the Nigerian intelligence. This is an analytic truth.



(d) While still not able to do anything about the first time Ejiofor was declared wanted, the same Ejiofor got involved in yet another violence in his compound that resulted in what he described as an armed attack or assassination attempt, and it led to the killing of his PA. Ejiofor blamed it on the Nigerian police and claimed it was because he was the lawyer for IPOB. Yet, no arrests, no prosecution. Ejiofor was not even invited by the police to explain what happened in his compound. Why? How could all that be happening? As a former intelligence analyst myself, I could tell immediately that this was not normal.



(f) If you are implicated in killing two police officers (senior officers), you know that the Nigerian police will not let you go free. When a Deputy Police Commissioner was gunned down (probably by fellow officers) during the Shiite protest in Abuja, scores of Shiite members were arrested and dumped in prison. They are still facing murder trial. How come that the two officers were killed by what the police suggested were Ejiofor boys and Ejiofor is a free man, not even questioned?



NNAMDI KANU WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY DROPPING EJIOFOR AS HIS LAWYER:

Ejiofor knows a lot about IPOB operations. Apart from knowing things like the secret of the name, Emma Powerful, he also knows the donors and sponsors of IPOB. He is in a position to blackmail Nnamdi Kanu, if Nnamdi Kanu tries to fire him. Also, Ejiofor cannot withdraw from the case by himself because he will become totally useless to the Nigerian Government and they will have no further reason to give him a plea bargain. That is the dilemma Nnamdi Kanu faces with Ejiofor.



CONJECTURAL TRUTH:

Based on all the above, I can safely draw the conclusion that there is more to Ejiofor than meets the eyes. He is probably part of a delicate secret intelligence operation on the poor puns of IPOB, as well as on their leadership.



I believe that at the right time, the same intelligence scheme will intervene either to dismiss all pending criminal charges against Ejiofor, as part of the deal. Or, they may betray him and go ahead and trial him with the powerful evidence they have against him. This should be a lesson to many. They joined what they did not understand and cannot understand. And many of them have paid the utmost price. And in any intricate secret intelligence operation, there are many circles called “operational cells”. Nnamdi Kanu did not know a lot of what his trusted inter circles were doing. Just as Nnamdi Kanu has said he did not know about sit-at-home, he might not have known about the things Ejiofor was doing behind him. Nnamdi said he did not order the sit-at-homes. In the same way, he did not say those things Ejiofor tells people he said each time he visits him in detention. I just pity many.



CONCLUSION:

The above scenario shows the predicament Nnamdi Kanu and his new lawyers face. With Ejiofor as part of their team, they have an uphill task. Ejiofor’s new mission may now be to undermine and frustrate the new legal team.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/02/nnamdi-kanus-lawyer-ifeanyi-ejiofor-is.html?m=1

NOTE: Now that I may be revealing secret intelligence operation of certain individuals around IPOB and the restoration of Biafra movement and the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, I may have annoyed some people within these intelligence operations. I am sure they would not like any revelations I may have made. I hope they would not be so offended as to want to silence me.

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NNAMDI KANU’S VICTORY IN COURT TODAY: THE LAST OF MY PREDICTIONS ALSO CAME THROUGH
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/01/nnamdi-kanus-victory-in-court-today.html?m=1

It might have come to you as a surprise, but not to me. My analysis showed me clearly, many months ago, that Nnamdi Kanu’s best legal approach was to hammer on the specific acts of Nigerian government that violated his rights – including the invasion of his mome in 2017 by the Nigerian military and the rendition from Kenya. That was the counter-game that his lawyers could play. Anything else was just chasing after the government in government’s own game.

Interestingly, one of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, was reasoning in the same direction as I was, even though without any communication with me. As a seasoned international lawyer, Ejimakor understood that to take the legal battle outside the pre-planned strategy of Nigerian Government, he had to focus on the violations of the rights of Nnamdi, rather than just trying to defend the criminals charges. That was exactly what he did with the fundamental rights application he filed in Abia State High Court.

Before the Nigerian Government lawyers realized the masterplan, Ejimakor was miles ahead. And today, he scored the first and the biggest legal victory to be won by Nnamdi Kanu in his entire ordeal with the Nigerian Government. I predicted, and it came to pass, that the Court would declare Nnamdi’s rendition unlawful and illegal, and that the court would award damages. The court did award damages in billions. That was brilliant on the part of Barrister Ejimakor.

What happened today in Abia High Court shows again that if you follow the wrong strategy, you can spend years without winning much. In all these years that Ifeanyi Ejiofor has been following the wrong strategy, what has he won? He won the verbal and propaganda war among the members of IPOB. But real victory has constantly eluded him. However, with a brilliant strategy, Aloy Ejimakor won a tangible victory today, both in terms of substantive legal positioning and by way of humongous damage award. The difference between Ejimakor and the rest is clear. Those of you following my predictions would admit that I have been very clear on this and I said it would happen this way. It is now for Nnamdi Kanu and his family to know which lawyer delivers tangible results and which lawyer delivers noise and confusion.

Going forward, what does today’s victory mean for Nnamdi Kanu’s case? It means a lot. A foundation has been laid for future victories. Let’s consider the following points:

(1) The finding by the court that the military invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s house in 2017 was illegal now strengths Nnamdi’ argument that he did not jump bail, that he only escaped from a military assault. In so far as the court has determined that the military presence in his compound was illegal, it is now valid to say that his escape from Nigeria was justified. And if Nnamdi Kanu’s escape has been determined to be justified, then he did not jump bail. And if he did not jump bail, he deserves another bail now. That is the power of today’s judgment. Thanks to Aloy Ejimakor’s strategy and dilligence.

(2) Today’s judgment actually found the Nigerian Government to have been unjust, wrong, immoral, and acting unlawfully in its treatment of Nnamdi Kanu. That is a very powerful moral booster for Nnamdi Kanu, his cause and his supporters. They can now point at the judgment as their evidence that the Government has not been honest in its dealings. The judgment is actually a floodlight in a dark tunnel. It could be a rallying point for a group that has been so thoroughly decimated over the years. It will help them regroup and to raise funds. Can you imagine what it means for the Nigerian Army and the Federal of Government of Nigeria to apologize to Nnamdi Kanu, which means apologizing to the Igbos, to Biafrans. That is a very big one.

(3) Also, today’s victory will strengthen the diplomatic and political options toward resolution. Indeed, today’s judgment can be used to strengthen the move by Ohaneze. The judgment placed a stinking mud on the face of President Buhari. It weakens his position and robs his argument of all merits. And an intervener like Ohaneze can go back to the President and resubmit the political option. And this time, they will be doing the President a favor, not just saving Nnamdi Kanu. The President now needs help. He needs help to remove the mud on the face of his administration. And diplomatically, international community looking at today’s judgment are now in position to pressure Nigerian Government to obey the orders of the High Court. When the courts of your country has found you to be in violation of the law, the government cannot go on pretending to be justified in its pursuit of Nnamdi Kanu. Indeed, today’s judgment tends to turn the prosecution of Nnamdi Kanu into a blatant persecution. I cannot believe that the Nigerian government lawyers allowed themselves to lose the case in Abia High Court.

(4) Finally, today’s victory will feature in almost every defense Nnamdi Kanu would have to the criminal charges against him. Rather than the criminal the charges wanted to make of him, today’s judgment tends to make him a hero and makes him look like a man defending himself against a vicious government that violated his rights.

It is all to the brilliance of Aloy Ejimakor. Today’s judgment was a great achievement and I am happy to say that I predicted it just as it turned out.

Even though Nigerian Government will appeal against this judgment, it is too late. Nnamdi Kanu is now entitled to an apology from the same Attorney General that called him a criminal.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/01/nnamdi-kanus-victory-in-court-today.html?m=1

NNAMDI KANU CASE: THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS.
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/01/nnamdi-kanu-case-current-state-of-things.html?m=1

Today is yet another sit-at-home in the Eastern parts of Nigeria. In fact, I hurriedly left Enugu this weekend just to avoid being caught up in the puzzling situation on the ground. The situation is puzzling because though the sit-at-home was initiated in support of Nnamdi Kanu’s cause, it continued even after Nnamdi Kanu and his group had relentlessly tried to stop it. In other words, Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are really not in control of the sit-at-home. I left Enugu in haste because I could get stuck.

Having escaped to a corner of Nigeria where I could move around on Mondays and the rest of the weak, I chose to stop and appreciate the weighty events of the week by presenting to you my assessment and predictions on the case of Nnamdi Kanu. So, let me start by asking: Where are we on the case?

President Buhari has rejected the plea for unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu. He has taken the obviously expected position to put him through trial with the predictable outcome. Any hope that Nnamdi Kanu would be out of detention before the end of this Administration has been dashed. So, the focus is now squarely on what happens in the courts, no longer on what the Igbo politicians, Ohaneze, men of God and the rest would do. Those have failed and attention should be focused on the lawyers and the courts.

As I have repeatedly predicted, the motion to grant Nnamdi Kanu bail will fail. He will not be granted bail this week. The application to transfer him to Kuje Correctional center will also fail. He will be ordered to remain in the custody of DSS. This means that the complete isolation of Nnamdi Kanu from his followers will continue. And also, the application challenging the jurisdiction of the court will fail. The court will rule that it has jurisdiction to try Nnamdi Kanu irrespective of how he was brought back from Kenya. So, the three applications that Nnamdi Kanu’s “lead lawyer” has been hammering upon since June, 2021 will all fail, throwing the defense team back to square 1.

However, there will likely be some light in the turned for Nnamdi Kanu this week. For the first time, there could be a judgment that will favor him. It is the case of Fundamental Rights Enforcement filed by Barrister Ejimakor in Abia State, seeking to enforce the rights of Nnamdi Kanu. In this application, Barrister Ejimakor makes what is actually the most sensible legal move so far. Looking at the whole chain of events since last year, the most basic legal question has been on how Nnamdi Kanu was brought into Nigeria from Kenya. That is the rendition question. So much can be made to rest on that question. So, to some extent, that question is a foundational one in that so much may rest on the answer to that question.

Ejimakor brilliantly understands the importance of the rendition question. The question is: Did Nigerian government bring Nnamdi Kanu into Nigeria in accordance with the law or did Nigerian government violate the law and the rights of Nnamdi Kanu in the process of bringing him into Nigeria? Almost every intelligent lawyer or jurist will tell you that Nigerian Government acted illegally and violated the rights of Nnamdi Kanu in order to bring him into Nigeria. I believe that the High Court will on the 19th of this month, Thursday of this week, answer that question. And I am confident that if the Court is ready with its judgment on the 19th, the judgment will be that Nigerian Government violated the law and violated the rights of Nnamdi Kanu. I cannot imagine any standard of legal analysis that would declare lawful the manner in which Nigerian government brought Nnamdi Kanu into Nigeria last June.

The beauty of such judgment is not just that the court gives victory to Nnamdi on such cardinal question. Rather, the beauty of such judgment lies in its strategic implications. Because so much depends on that question, once it is answered in favor of Nnamdi Kanu, it opens the door to other more immediate questions, such as whether it is right for Nigerian Government to continue in what has been declared illegal. In other words,: If you agree that he was brought into Nigeria in an unlawful manner, how can Nigeria government be allowed to reap the benefit of an illegality? A poisoned tree can only produce poisoned fruits. If you violate the law to get Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria, it means that anything done based on his presence in Nigeria is a continuation of an illegality. That is a strong argument to make in his favor.

How far will the Court in Abia State go in favor of Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday? I don’t want to raise your hopes unduly. But I believe that the court will declare the rendition illegal. I believe that the court will award monetary damages against the Nigerian Government in favor of Nnamdi Kanu. Certainly, the Nigerian Government will not pay any such damages, but it shifts the moral burden in favor of Nnamdi Kanu and against the Government, and this is a heavy burden for the government to bear. Any judgment faulting Nigerian Government is gold to Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB. So, to the extent that such a judgment will come is a victory to Kanu and a brilliant success for Barrister Ejimakor.

Indeed, one would wonder why this application was not make a priority all this while. This ought to have been the primary moves made by the defense team. If they had focused on this procedure since June, they would have significantly dented the work of the Government on the case.

Again, there are many reasons why a court may not render judgment on the day it was supposed to do so. But whenever the court gives judgment in the application filed by Barrister Ejimakor, it will be a victory for Nnamdi Kanu. And once any victory comes, it has the tendency to alter the entire direction of the case.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2022/01/nnamdi-kanu-case-current-state-of-things.html?m=1

gidgiddy:
I dont believe that the British authorities were making any moves against Kanu. I think that Nnamdi Kanu had to go to Kenya for some reason, and when the Kenyan authorities realised he was in their domain, they worked with Nigeria to kidnap and bring him back

Im no lawyer but I think that the charges against Kanu are baseless. They charges are mainly about what he said on his radio station which isnt even registered in Nigeria. Seems rather funny to be trying a man, in Nigeria, for what he said on a radio station in London

Before he left Britain he already have case in the court of which would have resulted in his conviction, even a layman knows it was the British that tiped the Nigerian authority on his way about, it's a simple logic.

NNAMDI KANU: AN UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF THE CASE

(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

Due process advocate (DPA)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/nnamdi-kanu-update-on-future-of-case.html?m=1

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You may have heard that an experienced lawyer has been engaged to lead the Nnamdi Kanu defense team henceforth. If you were surprised, I wasn’t. If you recalled, I stated as far back as in June that Ifeanyi Ejiofor was not capable to lead the defense team in such a complex and complicated case. In fact, I stated that the frontal and forward position Ejiofor occupied in the case had been detrimental to Nnamdi Kanu. I was right in my assessment. And that has been borne out by the recent development.



If a competent lawyer were to lead the defense team, a whole lot of things will get better for Nnamdi. Under a well-led team, there are even greater prospects that Nnamdi Kanu might get bail soon. The only regret I have now is that they waited 7 months before getting a capable hand to lead the defense. With a competent lawyer, Nnamdi Kanu might not still be in detention by now.



It is to be noted that everything I predicted would happen in the case of Nnamdi Kanu actually happened as I predicted. I predicted his arrest. I knew that no country would allow him to stay within its territory and inflaming violence or war in another country. True to my assessment, the British authorities were making a move against him. That was why he relocated to Kenya. The British intelligence informed their Nigerian counterparts and they tracked him to Kenya and arrested him and then renditioned him to Nigeria. All my predictions since then have been accurate.



With a brilliant lawyer on the saddle, I believe the case will have a clearer picture soon and Nnamdi will experience freedom. However, the new leader of defense must do more to control Ejiofor. His unguarded media comments could still be something to worry about.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/nnamdi-kanu-update-on-future-of-case.html?m=1

LEARN TO DEAL WITH ENVY ATTACKS: UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF ENVY IN OUR HUMAN LIVES
Emeka Ugwuonye (DPA)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/learn-to-deal-with-envy-attacks.html?m=1

Whenever I find any free time, I like to spend it reading my favorite books on human nature and Robert Greene remains one of the best writers in that field. I am greatly influenced by his writings. Tonight, past midnight and I couldn’t sleep. I was reading one of Greene’s books on the subject of envy. In this post, I have jumbled up direct quotes from his work and my own thoughts. I confess to plagiarism before anyone else accuses me of that. I hope one day to develop series of lectures on human nature. I learnt them the hard way – a combination of literature and practical experiences. But it is a branch of knowledge that will help you immensely. The more you understand human nature, the more you are able to deal with human beings without them hurting you as much.

“We humans are naturally compelled to compare ourselves with one another. We are continually measuring people’s status, the levels of respect and attention they receive, and noticing any differences between what we have and what they have. For some of us, this need to compare serves as a spur to excel through our work. For others, it can turn into deep envy – feelings of inferiority and frustration that lead to covert attack and sabotage. Nobody admits to acting out of envy. You must recognize the early warning sings – praise and bids for friendship that seem effusive and out of proportion; subtle digs at you under the guise of good-natured humor; apparent uneasiness with your success. It is most likely to crop up among friends or your peers in the same profession. Learn to deflect envy by drawing attention away from yourself. Develop your sense of self-worth from internal standards and not incessant comparison.”

With envy come secret desire to hurt, wound and steal from the envied person, to right the unfairness that comes with his or her supposed superiority. Envy is a painful emotion, an admission of our own inferiority, something rather unbearable for us humans. It is not an emotion we want to sit with and brood over. We like to conceal it from ourselves and not to be aware that it motivates our actions.

What we need to grasp is something paradoxical: people who feel envy in the first place are often motivated to become our friends. They feel a mix of genuine interest, attraction and envy, if we have some qualities that make them feel inferior. Becoming our friends, they can disguise the envy to themselves. They will often go even further, becoming extra attentive and impatient to secure our friendship. But as they draw closer, the problem gets worse. The underlying envy is continually stirred. The very traits that might have stimulated feelings of inferiority – the good position, the intelligence, the solid work ethic, the likeability (many beautiful women like him) – are now being witnessed on a daily basis.

Eventually a narrative is easily constructed: the envied person is lucky, overly ambitions, not nearly so great, always showing off, he thinks he knows it all, he thinks he is the only educated person, etc. As our friends, the envious people can discover our weak points and what will wound the most. From within a friendship, they are better positioned to sabotage us, steal our spouse, spread mayhem. Once they attack us, we tend to feel guilty and confused. If we respond angrily, this only feeds the narrative of our unlikeable nature. Because we are friends, we feel doubly wounded and betrayed, and the deeper the wound, the greater the satisfaction for the envious person. We can even speculate that the envious person is unconsciously drawn to befriending the envied person in order to have this wounding power.

The lesson is not for you to become afraid of people or too suspicious of friends. Rather, it is for you to be alert once you pick up some signs of possible envy. Learn to spot the type of people particularly prone to the feeling of envy before you become too involved with them or too enmeshed in their drama. You will gain a lot in life if you can learn to avoid envy attacks. The pain inflicted by one envious friend can resonate and poison you forever and change your life for the worse. So be careful of envious friends.

Some ways to escape from envy attacks is to play down your success. Do not show you are so smart. When you have done better than others around you, be the first to say it was out of luck. Don’t let them know you were smarter. Pretend it was just good luck. Indeed, even suggest that those who failed the exam failed because they knew the subject better than the teacher. That assuages their feeling of inferiority and may save you an envy attack. Sometimes, you need to have something bad happen to you. You should, if possible, deliberately and calculatedly allow something bad to happen to you so that the level or amount of envy attacks you face may come down. For instance, if you spend two years in prison; you will be surprised to see how all those previously attacking you in every blog and social medial will stop. They feel you are dead and done for. The inferiority they felt that forced them to attack you dies down. They are no longer envying you because you had, as they see it, a bad experience. You are no longer the star they envied. They leave you alone. Then you can focus and do your work without their nuisance and sabotage. This subject is deep. I am just flagging it and getting you to want to learn more about human nature.
https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/learn-to-deal-with-envy-attacks.html?m=1

MY SHIFTING VIEWS ABOUT ODUMEGWU OJUKWU AND HIS LEADERSHIP OF BIAFRA
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)
Movement for peaceful change (MPC)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/my-shifting-views-about-odumegwu-ojukwu.html?m=1

In recent times, I have made a number of posts in which I expressed rather critical and unflattering view of Emeka Ojukwu. In these posts, I saw him less as a hero and more as a young man who allowed ego and emotions to get the better part of him. Even though I continued to believe that the Igbos were badly provoked and terribly persecuted in Nigeria in 1966, I continued to emphasis that Ojukwu misjudged the world, he misjudged Gowon and his team, and he misjudged his own capacity. And these layers of misjudgment led to the loss of 3 million lives and the ultimate defeat of Biafrans.

My friends would wonder what has happened to me. I had deep respect for Ojukwu. I was lucky to have met him on two occasions in my life. First, was when he attended a law students event at the University of Benin over 30 years ago. The second was on August 5, 2005, when he and his beautiful and brilliant wife were my guests at my home in Rockville, Maryland, United States. On each of these two occasions, Ojukwu left an indelible impression in me far greater than all I had read about him and all I had imagined about him growing up and hearing about the civil war. There are many areas where Emeka Ojukwu stood shoulders taller than other men. It is hard to find anyone who admired Ojukwu as much as I did to later become as critical of his leadership of Biafra as I have been recently.

What then happened to me to change me? This is a legitimate question. But a more basic question should be whether I really changed in my assessment of the greatness of the man Ojukwu. No, I don’t think I changed, despite my critical reassessment of the leadership of Biafra. I did not change. What happened to me is that a sudden and unexpected situation has arisen among the Igbos, which demands my reaction. The rise of IPOB is a big threat to the long-term interest of the Igbos. And unfortunately, IPOB’s ideology seemed to have been drawing oxygen from a rather romanticized and false reading of history. There has been a certain tendency among many Igbo youths to see the events of 1967 as something that could be reenacted with a better outcome. That is: some Igbo youths tend to think that if we have another civil war, the Igbos would do better than they did in 1967, and thereby cure the age-long injustice against the Igbos in Nigeria.

I know that this sentimentalized view of history is not only false but downright stupid and dangerous. That false view of history needed to be re-examined and corrected. To the extent that any lenient interpretation of the history of the leadership of Biafra was encouraging the folly of the moment, I became determined to help shine light on certain corners of the history of Biafra that had been glossed over. I wanted to let the leaders of IPOB understand they will not end as heroes, but that history will judge them for extreme foolishness if their actions push the Igbos into more bloody confrontation with Nigeria.

What I have done by my critical review of Ojukwu is a reality check meant to restore situational awareness in the Igbo youths. I wanted to let them know that war will not end in glory and honor or praises for those who push us into war. I do respect Ojukwu’s memory and I understand what he meant to the Igbos. However, I must stop at that point where such respect would lead to the idealization of secession in 2021.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/12/my-shifting-views-about-odumegwu-ojukwu.html?m=1

HOW BUHARI AND HIS MEN ARE CALCULATING AGAINST OHANEZE OVER NNAMDI KANU
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)
Movement for peaceful change (MPC)

The best person to effectively represent Nnamdi Kanu's interest is an intelligent and experienced lawyer who has a clear picture of the direction of his case. Nnamdi Kanu doesn’t have that caliber of lawyer in the person of Barrister Ejiofor.

The absence of a competent lawyer as leader of Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team led to the situation where Ohaneze is playing such a prominent role in a criminal case pending in court. Can you imagine that? This is a criminal trial for goodness sake. The Government wants to use the criminal justice to achieve its objective. That is quite evident, and I will show you how I came to that conclusion. On the other hand, either by design or because of the absence of a good defense lawyer, Ohaneze is using political approach to achieve its desired outcome.

So, you can see the gap in the strategies. Government (the custodian of politics) is using the courts while Ohaneze is using politics to resolve the Kanu challenge. And when Ohaneze met President Buhari and presented its political option, President Buhari quickly went back to his court option. That was why the President wrongly claimed that the matter is before the courts and that he might lack the power to intervene. That position is really wrong because the President, through his Attorney General, has all the powers to terminate the prosecution and have the charges dismissed. But because the President had calculated that the judicial option was more in his interest, he pretended to lack the ability to abort the judicial option in preference for the political option proposed by Ohaneze.

To show that the President has entrenched interest in the judicial option, two key figures in his government have come out recently to suggest that the President lacks the power to get Nnamdi Kanu released without completing the trial. Festus Keyamo repeated the pretentious position that the President lacks the power to end the trial. And today, Malami, the Attorney General, repeated the same position by suggesting that discussions of release of Nnamdi Kanu are premature because Nnamdi Kanu is still standing trial. In other words, Malami wants the trial to be completed before pardon could be discussed. He wants Nnamdi Kanu to be convicted and sentenced to death or life before he could be granted pardon and then released. Ironically, Malami can end trial with only two paragraphs of written statement entering nolli prosecue in the case.

The funny thing is that my Ohaneze brothers may think they are smart, and that they are making progress over Nnamdi Kanu’s case, when, in fact, they are complicating matters. Ohaneze’s moves may actually turn out against Nnamdi Kanu. They are pleading for forgiveness, which is an admission that Nnamdi Kanu committed the offences. The leader of Ohaneze delegation was quoted to be assuring Buhari that: “I know how to control him. If you release him to me, I will get him to stop saying those things he was saying”. In other words, he admitted that Nnamdi Kanu was inciting violence and preaching ethnic hatred, but that he would stop him from continuing to commit those offences. The Nigerian Government is yet to prove in court that it was indeed Nnamdi Kanu that was making those broadcasts. But our Ohaneze elders already admitted that fact, thus providing for the state the evidence they may actually not have at trial.

If Nnamdi Kanu had a good lawyer, he would have made some critical advances in the case and would have advised Ohaneze to sit back and watch for the time being. Instead, because there is no good lawyer for Nnamdi Kanu, Ohaneze is so confused. The Ohaneze members don’t know how to approach this case. They come in as observers of the trial (and get denied entry to the courtroom – they monitor the trial from the corridors and the parking lot) and they came as delegates to the President to ask for amnesty, but end up admitting to the offences charged. It is clear that Ohaneze is at a loss. The President is far more calculated and is ahead of them in strategy and thinking. President will listen to the advice of his Attorney General before deciding how to respond to the Ohaneze people. And the Attorney General will tell the President that the discussions with Ohaneze is premature, that he should wait until Kanu is convicted.

At the present pace of progress in the trial, the trial will not be completed in the next three years. But also, the trial can be sped up if Nnamdi pleads guilty to some of the charges, by way of a plea-bargain. In other words, the Government will ask Nnamdi to plead guilty to some of the charges in order for the government to drop the other charges and he will be sentenced to time already served in detention. The guilty plea will effectively disqualify Nnamdi Kanu from holding a political office in the future, unless pardoned. So, this is quite complicated and too advanced for Nnamdi Kanu’s current lead counsel. He is actually a lame duck and unable to even comprehend what is happening.

My advice to the Igbos is this: Do not underestimate the President and his men. They seem to have a game plan. The Nigerian agents that brought Nnamdi Kanu to Nigeria could have killed him in Kenya if that was what they wanted. But no! They had a plan and their plan is intended to play out through the court. Be careful and smart as you deal with the Government. They are not as stupid as they appear clumsy. They have a game plan to permanently suppress this Biafran agitation using Nnamdi Kanu’s case.

mrvitalis:
It's only in Nigeria that people asking for justice is frown upon by onlookers

What are the igbos asking for ? Is it their right ? Are they trying to impose on others ?

Igbos say we want biafra u say they want to drag other Tribes with them now igbos told u they want Igbo nation with every Igbo sub group that accept they are Igbo ..you are here attacking the aggressor

Now let me educate ...igbos lost that war because of to things

Lack of protein ( That is covered today) , poultry and fish farming have made that weapon void even with piggery in northern Igbo

Two
Lack of lead to produce bullets ...now we have lead in every igbo state and producing bullets won't be hard


Should the war happen again not even sultan's palace is safe trust me ..$30k can get u a rocket that can sink sultan's palace with easy

If what we are fighting for is unjust then we would lose but if it's just then we Shall win because this time u either kill all of us ( which is impossible ) or we win

No part of Nigeria would be safe if war is declared that's what u can take to the bank

The aggregators are not even as informed and prepared like you that's the reason why they keep making mess of the whole thing.

MANY THINGS OUR YOUNG READERS IGNORE ABOUT THE BIAFRA CIVIL WAR
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)
Movement for peaceful change (MPC)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/many-things-our-young-readers-ignore.html?m=1

I often run into Igbos who would like to refer to the Achebe’s book “There Was A Country”, as their argument in support of the view that Biafra as a country is still a realizable and desirable objective. I shake in frustration whenever I read such ignorant position. I have been very close to the book in question. It was written by Achebe and published after Achebe had been my client for about seven years. I wouldn’t say that I knew the rich and complex mind of a man like Achebe. But I can tell that he could not have held the views wrongly attributed to him based on a misreading of his book.

However, recently, I made the book one of the few books I keep on my desk at any given time so I can read them each moment I am free. I was reading the book this morning as I gradually made it out of bed. Of course, there are numerous passages in that book that are deeply thought provoking, which should not be a surprise given that it was written by one of the best writers in human history. In page 124 of that book, Achebe wrote:

“There are a few other factors that merit consideration. There was an obsessive tendency by both belligerents - Gowon and Ojukwu – to seek positions of strength and avoid looking weak throughout the conflict. I am not referring to the propaganda statements, however over the top, which one expects in times of war, but to the ego-driven policies that were clearly not about the conflict at hand. Some of Ojukwu’s and Gowon’s civilian advisers aggravated the crisis by transforming themselves into sycophants. Rather than encourage their respective leader on each side of the conflict to consider a cease-fire, they massaged their egos and spurred them on to ever-escalating hostility”

I doubt that most of those who use Achebe’s book to justify any of the things that the neo-Biafran agitators have been saying or doing have actually read the book. And if they did, they certainly did not read passages like the above in quote. And if they did read them, they certainly did not understand them. Otherwise, in the above passage, Achebe drew our attention to the danger of poor-quality leadership in moments of conflict. During the civil war, Nigeria and Biafra were led by men in their early 30s, who lacked maturity that usually comes with age and experience. Driven by their egos, they did not care about the lives wasted. Driven by their youthful exuberances, they did not understand the importance of restraint as the ultimate expression of strength. Though Achebe did not say this, I personally hold Ojukwu more responsible for the failure of restraint because the three million lives lost came from his people. He lost more than Gowon. So, he must bear greater responsibility for the failure of restraint as a measure of strength.


In the neo-Biafran movement, we see, though at infantile levels, the same sort of ego-tripping, sycophancy and tendency to push for conflict instead of restraint. We have in Nnamdi Kanu a man obsessed with power and a magnet of sycophants. This is seen in the many images he has of himself – the Supreme Commander, the Prophet, the Savior, Ohamadike, Onyendu, etc. He publicly referred to his movement as the Class of 2021, in comparison with Ojukwu’s administration which he referred to as the Class of 1967. He publicly boasted that he was a very powerful man who had the power to choose who would live and who would die. Indeed, Nnamdi Kanu’s megalomania reached the point of acute mental health crisis. Yet, the ego-massagers massaged his ego to no end.

Again, I insist that the Igbos, especially the Igbo youths, should be properly educated and properly oriented. From what I have seen in the past three years, there could be a war again and the Igbos will lose again, and this time, maybe worse than the last time. Human conflict takes emotions to start and brains to resolve. The problem is that the emotions come before the brains. But if we can bring in the brains to bear early in the process, war will be avoided and lives saved. All I have done in my many posts on Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB was to bring the brains to bear early in the chain of events so we can avoid violence and bloodshed.

NNAMDI KANU'S CASE: I'M HAPPY THEY FINALLY LISTENED TO ME.

(Emeka Ugwuonye Esquire)

Due process advocate (DPA)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/nnamdi-kanus-case-im-happy-they-finally.html?m=1

I told Nigerians that Nnandi Kanu must change his legal team if he wanted to have any chance of success in his cases. I made it clear also that Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor is a disaster of daily occurrence in that case. I knew I was right and I can cee they are listening to me. See the latest view of people who are about to save Nnamdi kanu:

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Nnamdi kanu ipob leader.

As the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, enters a crucial stage, the umbrella body is seeking to recruit a top legal luminary to replace the current legal team that has been representing the breakaway agitator.



Although IPoB has not discarded its current legal team made up of many lawyers, some who are rendering free services based on their belief in the cause that Mazi Kanu is leading, IPoB however wants the legal team to be spearheaded by a ‘lawyer with high pedigree, generally known and highly respected within the Nigerian judiciary’.

A top source, who is close to the IPoB organization, said on Sunday that the current legal team is perceived to be populated by ‘activists’ who are best suited to work with a ‘legal luminary’ of not below the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN popularly referred to as ‘Learned Silk’ in Nigerian legal parlance.



The source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the organization, said, “IPoB is looking for a highly placed attorney of a SAN status, who is well versed in the Nigerian legal system and commands respect in the circle.



“The envisaged SAN, when engaged, is expected to reorganize Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team, mobilize qualified and like-minded lawyers to work as coordinated legal team to secure victory over his terrorism and treason felony charges slammed on him by the Nigerian Government.



“As you can see these are very weighty and serious legal issues that require a versatile legal representation and not mere activists who many just be more interested in drawing publicity stunts at the expense of the client and we do not want anything that can affect out cause,” the source said.



Vanguard learnt last night that one of the top lawyers being seriously considered by the IPoB leadership to champion the cause of Nnamdi Kanu, is a highly respected lawyer, Onyechi Ikpeazu, who has a PhD in law and has been recording outstanding victories for his clients in most of the cases handled by him.



It was however learnt that Dr. Ikpeazu was not likely going to accept any offer considering the huge implications it might have on his career as a leading international legal practitioner.



It was not also clears as at least night if IPoB had even approached Ikpeazu with any offer to represent its leader as the case against Kanu comes up early next year.



As to explain the rationale for the hiring of a foreign lawyer from the U.S to represent Kanu in Nigeria, the source express reservations over the attempt to bring in a foreign legal practitioner to appear in a Nigerian court, pointing out that it might not work out at the end of the day.



“The issue of a U.S lawyer appearing for our client in Nigeria may not work 100 percent in our favour but it can at least draw international attention to our case,” the top official said.



It will be recalled that on October 18, 2021, the Federal Government had filed an amended seven-count charge against the IPoB leader bordering on terrorism and treason felony.



Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State being the leader of IPOB on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, preparations made by you and others now at large for states in the Southeast and South south and other communities in Kogi and Benue states to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004;



Count two says “That you, Kanu, on or about the 28th April 2015 in London, did broadcast on Radio Biafra … referred to Maj.- Gen. Muhammad Buhari (GCON), the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a pedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil, knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C. 77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004;



Count three: “That you, Kanu, had between March and April 2015 imported and kept in Ubulusiuzor, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, a radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used household which you declared as used household items and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47 (2) of the Criminal Code of Act , Cap C45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004;



Count four: “That you, Kanu, had between 2018 and 2021 in Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, and FCT(Federal Capital Territory), professed to be a member of IPOB, a proscribed organisation in Nigeria and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 16 Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013”

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/nnamdi-kanus-case-im-happy-they-finally.html?m=1

NOTE:

When next I make a prediction or give an opinion, maybe you should listen, if you're not an isi-okpukpu.

ablejesus26:
Then he will go down like his leader
there is a way things operate in Igboland
the moment mnk started to play idi amin wannabe
I knew then that he will never prosper in his ipob fraud
my joy is that true Nwafors do not support his fraud ipob

I wonder who told him he could achieve anything with his brainwashed
thugs,cultist and hardened criminal elements,as man power

you say the SE leaders are bad,but you have never done anything to
positively impact the Region
ordinary primary school he doesnt have in his hometown in Afara Umuahia

He is not a terrorist though
there is not one single terrorist in Igboland
He is just an intelligent gamer using the dearest thing to the heart
of the average Igboman for his selfish interest

He really messed up

WHAT A DIFFERENCE IN GOVERNANCE CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE
( Emeka Ugwuonye Esquire)
Due process advocate (DPA)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/what-difference-in-governance-culture.html?m=1

The American President underwent a medical procedure in the same city where his office is located. Because that procedure would require him to be sedated for 90 minutes, he transferred presidential powers to the Vice President.

The reasoning is simple. For the 90 minutes of sedation, the President would be unconscious and unable to perform his duties as President, should the need arise. To make sure there was not even a minute gap in the consciousness of the holder of that office, the President had to transfer that power for the 90 minutes.

Compare that with Nigeria and you will see a stark contrast. Our President falls sick and travels overseas for treatment. The procedures he undergoes include those that would induce coma for days. That is; days of total loss of consciousness followed by months of total incapacitation. Yet, the Nigeria President may never transfer presidential powers. It happened under Yar Adua and it has been happening under the current President.

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/what-difference-in-governance-culture.html?m=1
How do you judge the situation? What more does this tell us about the quality of public governance and leadership in our country? Are there things we ought to do differently?

gidgiddy:
Its not possible to pardon a person who has not been convicted of any crime.

Another thing is that Nnamdi Kanu is just one man. Should Nnamdi Kanu renounce Biafra, what is likely to happen is that IPOB will just appoint a replacement for him and the struggle continues.

It is also very possible that the person who replaces Kanu will be even more radical than Kanu

The issue of Biafra is far bigger than Kanu

Once he renounce Biafra agitation it will take to to get. Replacement like him just like it took time for him to replace uwazurike. From Massob

nwele2017:
[s]BUHARI WILL PARDON NNAMDI KANU, BUT THE IMPLICATIONS WILL BE PROFOUND.
(Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/buhari-will-pardon-nnamdi-kanu-but.html?m=1

From the early signs of the outcome of the confab between Igbo elders and President Buhari, I can predict that Buhari will grant Nnamdi Kanu pardon, opening the way for his release from detention. However, one thing I want you to understand is that it will NEVER be an unconditional release.

Any release of Nnamdi Kanu will come with many terms and conditions. The number one of the conditions is that he will renounce Biafra and embrace one united Nigeria. Even the leader of the Igbo delegation who wants Nnamdi released to him believes in one united Nigeria. But the question is: if Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB renounce Biafra, what will be left of them?

The question is whether Nnamdi Kanu will accept these conditions. The answer is yes. Indeed, it will be easy for him to explain and rationalize it. Since their Biafra is sometimes a spirit, the spirit visited him and told him to accept the deal that it will be in the interest of the Igbos. And that makes sense. And that has been my position all along, that we don't need Biafra. I will be happy if Nnamdi publicly accepts that and turn a new page in his politics.

And one more irony! The same Buhari that was dead four years ago may soon be granting pardon to the man that declared him dead.
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PRESIDENT BUHARI TO IGBO LEADERS: YOUR DEMAND FOR NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE IS HEAVY. I WILL CONSIDER IT

An unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently standing trial, runs contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

Receiving a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, at State House, Abuja, the President told the 93-year-old statesman:

“You’ve made an extremely difficult demand on me as leader of this country. The implication of your request is very serious. In the last six years, since I became President, nobody would say I have confronted or interfered in the work of the Judiciary. God has spared you, and given you a clear head at this age, with very sharp memory. A lot of people half your age are confused already. But the demand you made is heavy. I will consider it.”

Stressing his policy of non-interference with the Judiciary, President Buhari said when Kanu jumped bail, got arrested and brought back to the country, “I said the best thing was to subject him to the system. Let him make his case in court, instead of giving very negative impressions of the country from outside. I feel it’s even a favour to give him that opportunity.”

The President condoled with Chief Amaechi, who recently buried his wife, praying that her soul would rest in peace.

The nonagenarian had described the situation in the Southeast as “painful and pathetic,” lamenting that businesses have collapsed, education is crumbling, and there is fear everywhere.

He pleaded for a political, rather than military solution, requesting that if Kanu was released to him as the only First Republic Minister still alive, “he would no longer say the things he had been saying,” stressing that he could control him, “not because I have anything to do with them (IPOB), but I am highly respected in Igbo land today.”

Chief Amaechi said twice he had interfaced with Nnamdi Kanu in the past, and the latter rescinded orders earlier given on civil disobedience.

He concluded: “I don’t want to leave this planet without peace returning to my country. I believe in one big, united Nigeria, a force in Africa. Mr President, I want you to be remembered as a person who saw Nigeria burning, and you quenched the fire.”

Other people in the visiting delegation were; His Excellency Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former Governor of Anambra State, Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the Methodist Church, Chief Barrister Goddy Uwazurike, former President of Igbo socio-cultural group, Aka Ikenga, and Mr Tagbo Mbazulike Amaechi.
https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/buhari-will-pardon-nnamdi-kanu-but.html?m=1

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
November 19, 2021[/s]

Rubbish. You must be high in agbo or whatever you guys take over there in south west to think Nnamdi will agree to that rubbish.

Let's wait and see.how it plays out.

Blue3k:
How do you pardon someone who hasn't been found guilty of anything? You guys are putting the cart before the horse. The state can drop the charges admitting they're wrong and had no case.

Was Niger Delta militants convicted before the government granted them amnesty?

Such is the paradox of Nigeria system.

BUHARI WILL PARDON NNAMDI KANU, BUT THE IMPLICATIONS WILL BE PROFOUND.
(Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/buhari-will-pardon-nnamdi-kanu-but.html?m=1

From the early signs of the outcome of the confab between Igbo elders and President Buhari, I can predict that Buhari will grant Nnamdi Kanu pardon, opening the way for his release from detention. However, one thing I want you to understand is that it will NEVER be an unconditional release.

Any release of Nnamdi Kanu will come with many terms and conditions. The number one of the conditions is that he will renounce Biafra and embrace one united Nigeria. Even the leader of the Igbo delegation who wants Nnamdi released to him believes in one united Nigeria. But the question is: if Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB renounce Biafra, what will be left of them?

The question is whether Nnamdi Kanu will accept these conditions. The answer is yes. Indeed, it will be easy for him to explain and rationalize it. Since their Biafra is sometimes a spirit, the spirit visited him and told him to accept the deal that it will be in the interest of the Igbos. And that makes sense. And that has been my position all along, that we don't need Biafra. I will be happy if Nnamdi publicly accepts that and turn a new page in his politics.

And one more irony! The same Buhari that was dead four years ago may soon be granting pardon to the man that declared him dead.
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PRESIDENT BUHARI TO IGBO LEADERS: YOUR DEMAND FOR NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE IS HEAVY. I WILL CONSIDER IT

An unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently standing trial, runs contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

Receiving a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, at State House, Abuja, the President told the 93-year-old statesman:

“You’ve made an extremely difficult demand on me as leader of this country. The implication of your request is very serious. In the last six years, since I became President, nobody would say I have confronted or interfered in the work of the Judiciary. God has spared you, and given you a clear head at this age, with very sharp memory. A lot of people half your age are confused already. But the demand you made is heavy. I will consider it.”

Stressing his policy of non-interference with the Judiciary, President Buhari said when Kanu jumped bail, got arrested and brought back to the country, “I said the best thing was to subject him to the system. Let him make his case in court, instead of giving very negative impressions of the country from outside. I feel it’s even a favour to give him that opportunity.”

The President condoled with Chief Amaechi, who recently buried his wife, praying that her soul would rest in peace.

The nonagenarian had described the situation in the Southeast as “painful and pathetic,” lamenting that businesses have collapsed, education is crumbling, and there is fear everywhere.

He pleaded for a political, rather than military solution, requesting that if Kanu was released to him as the only First Republic Minister still alive, “he would no longer say the things he had been saying,” stressing that he could control him, “not because I have anything to do with them (IPOB), but I am highly respected in Igbo land today.”

Chief Amaechi said twice he had interfaced with Nnamdi Kanu in the past, and the latter rescinded orders earlier given on civil disobedience.

He concluded: “I don’t want to leave this planet without peace returning to my country. I believe in one big, united Nigeria, a force in Africa. Mr President, I want you to be remembered as a person who saw Nigeria burning, and you quenched the fire.”

Other people in the visiting delegation were; His Excellency Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former Governor of Anambra State, Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the Methodist Church, Chief Barrister Goddy Uwazurike, former President of Igbo socio-cultural group, Aka Ikenga, and Mr Tagbo Mbazulike Amaechi.
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Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
November 19, 2021

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REPORT OF THE LAGOS STATE PANEL ON ENDSARS PROTEST AND AFTERMATH

(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)


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One of the key recommendations of the Lagos State Panel’s Report of the EndSARS protest is that the Nigerian police be better funded and better trained to discharge their responsibilities to the citizens of Nigeria. It also recommended discipline for the officers who were found to have participated in shooting at innocent protesters.





The above recommendation is on the same lines with the position of The Due Process Advocates International Foundation (DPA). On 27th October, 2019, while I was in detention, DPA presented a petition to the National Assembly, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Chief Judge of Abuja, the Minister of Justice, the Inspector General of the Police, President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo, and principal officers of the National Assembly, including the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Human Rights, etc. In that petition, we outline a number of measures to be taken in order to correct the massive human rights crisis in Nigeria, including a deep-reaching reform of the police force and policing in Nigeria. In our petition, we warned that there could be crisis such as the widespread protest and violent resistance to human rights abuses by the police unless something was done immediately.



Our petition was duly delivered to all the intended recipients. But, with the exception of the Chief Justice and the Chief Judge of Abuja, who acted on our petition by freeing over 600 detainees in police custody in Abuja in November of 2019, our petition was ignored by the recipients.



One year after our petition, the EndSARS protest started, with its deadly consequences. It is interesting to note that the recommendations of Lagos Panel contain a number of measures we recommended in our petition two years ago, especially the reform of the police force. It is unfortunate that it would take something as deadly and as violent as the EndSARS riot and the massacre of the innocent for any serious attention to be paid to the need for police reform in Nigeria. But we are somewhat relieved that the issue is finally coming to light.





You must note that one of the challenges I had in 2018 when I attempted to draw the attention of the Nigerian public to the crisis within the Nigerian police was that the police were able then to buy some elements in the Nigerian society who defend them. We recall with lingering displeasure some individuals who openly came to the social media to say that the Nigerian police were the best in the world and that there were no atrocities being committed by the police. Some online scammer elements that DPA had exposed in 2018 and their paid bloggers were out there defending the police. We have their names. But some of them are so insignificant that to recall them by name will amount to according them recognition that they do not deserve. With the report of the Lagos Panel, it is now hard for any such elements to come out to deny that there have been police atrocities in Nigeria or that my 2018 disclosures about the police were not true.



DPA is now calling on all Nigerians to join us in seeking the reform of the Nigerian police. Join the Coalition for the Reform of the Nigerian Police. DPA believes that Nigeria can never develop as a nation unless there are equity and justice and rule of law in Nigeria. It is through a functioning justice system that a government can manage the diversity of Nigeria. It is through a fair justice system that we can turn our diversity into strength. It is through a fair justice system that we can protect the weak against the strong. It is through a fair administration of justice that we can ensure that might does not translate to right. In America, for instance, the Catholics are a minority, the Muslims are a minority, the Jews are a minority. And these minorities are not necessarily liked by the majority. But through the law and fair administration of justice, they are protected. And being protected, none is asking for secession or to break away from the country. In the center of administration of justice is the police force. A dysfunctional and corrupt police force is antithetical to a fair administration of justice.



Personally, I saw that in Nigeria, the greatest and most central challenge we face as a country had to do with injustice. I saw that all the agitations in Nigeria arose in response to real injustice in Nigeria. I felt that if we could have a serious justice/police reform in Nigeria, we will overcome these challenges and we will be able to end the agitations for self-determination. If we have an honest, well-trained and upright police, Fulani herdsmen will not be able to invade and destroy farmlands, bandits will not be able to kill and maim people or kidnap people. So, all falls upon the failure of the police. Most problems of Nigeria falls on the problems of the police force. Rather than join in agitating for the breakup of Nigeria, I saw as a more enduring alternative the reform of key institutions of government such as the police and the judiciary. Hence, we have DPA. Hence, we began to demand for reform of the police.

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DPA calls on all citizens to join us in our peaceful quest for the reform of the police and the justice system.

Tranquillity360:
We will be glad if you tell us the right way.

The path of non violence and working within the political and leadership structure of the east which ipob rejected have once again proven to be the right path based on what we have seen in the east so far, did violence or forceful seat at home lead to anything meaningful? The answer is no. Was ipob able to stop Anambra election? No.

Now the same political and leadership structure of East which ipob called all manner of names were the people who saved Kanu the last time and are still his only hope as it stands now because the government will never negotiate with ipob direct. The earlier ipob and it's supporters understand this basic truth is better for them.

gidgiddy:
Emeka Ugwuonye is a confused man. This is a man who once left America, where he was a Lawyer, to come to Abuja to defend Nnamdi Kanu in court.

Its not loke Ugwuonye did not listen to Radio Biafra when he did this. Now he attacks Nnamdi Kanu over flimsy reasons. What is wrong in someone saying that his people are children of God? Did Nnamdi Kanu say that other people are children if the devil? No he did not. I see nothing wrong with Nnamdi Kanu calling his people children of God, and if anyone wants to read meaning into it like Ugwuonye, then thats their business


I laugh when people say that Nnamdi Kanu was spreading hate on his Radio station. This is a country where Boko haram, ISWAP, killer herdsmen and different armed bandits are spreading death daily. So how can Nnamdi Kanu be spreading hate where there is no love?

He is simply saying that Kanu is going about the whole thing the wrong way coupled with bad attitude of Igbo leaders at the onset otherwise the situation wouldn't have degenerated to this level, I advise and you read in-between the line to have a clearer picture of the situation.

THE ENDSARS MASSACRE PROBE, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT IN NIGERIA THIS YEAR
(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)
Due process advocate DPA

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/the-endsars-massacre-probe-most.html?m=1


I stayed up all night to deal with the release of the Report of the Probe on the EndSARS massacre of October 20, 2021 at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos. That the panel was able to withstand pressure from government and produce a report that stated the truth remains surreal to me, given that it is happening in Nigeria.

Despite the relentless and over-the-board effort by Government to suppress the truth and superimpose an alternative universe, this panel admitted that there was a massacre of countless people, that there was massive and elaborate effort by state actors to destroy evidence and cover up events. The report blamed it directly on soldiers and the police. It also, by implication, indicted several government officials at various levels for cover-up and negligence. With the report, a government figure like Lai Mohammed will likely end up with a legacy that will be remarkable for ignominy and dishonesty. Lai Mohammed denied the truth. He planted lies. He threatened and harassed anyone who said the truth. And in the end, he turned out a blatant liar. That is his legacy. He brought it on himself.

For me, this report has been a catharsis. In 2018, I had first-hand evidence that the police were committing multiple crimes against humanity and the atrocities that ultimately led to the protest two years after. I tried to save my country by exposing these atrocities. My hope was that if Nigerians and the government became aware of these atrocities, then they could be stopped and lives saved. The police officers immediately implicated in my disclosures conspired among themselves to silence me. The method they chose was to treacherously charge me with murder and armed robbery – making me the most educated and oldest and the only Harvard-trained lawyer to ever be charged with murder and armed robbery in Nigerian history. It was unbelievable – that they could even conceive of such. But then, the stake was high, too high – the police had so much to hide and they would go to all extent to do so, assassination inclusive.

When charged with murder, the evil in our judicial process kicked in – the judiciary is incapable of seeing the fraudulent purpose of such charges. I was initially denied bail. I was remanded in prison custody and the police assumed that they had successfully covered the truth. They relaxed and continued the atrocities. I was in prison when the EndSARS protest exploded on Nigeria. I understood what was happening. I understood that it was inevitable. It was actually what I had hoped to avoid. I had hoped to avoid that sort of false and costly solution to the problem of the police in Nigeria.

I was devastated when the protest led to the death of many. It left me with a sense of failure – I failed to get Nigeria to deal with the police problem without paying such a huge price in the process. And when the government nearly succeeded in covering up the brutal massacre, I felt twice stabbed in the gut. It is therefore a great relief and sense of vindication that this report came in the way it did. There is no doubt now that Nigeria is a brutal police state, that civil liberty and freedom still have no meaning in this country. But who knows how else Lai Mohammed and his friends in government will like to spin it.

In the final analysis, Nigeria must prepare for a genuine police reform. None of the issues that gave rise to the EndSARS protest has been addressed. Indeed, the situation is worse today than ever. Unfortunately, the Government fails to understand that as long as those issues are not addressed, the protest and the discontent will continue. It is only a matter of time. This report is just a day-one in a chain of history – a history of resistance to police atrocities and the repressive state.

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paramakina202:
The cult group called IPOB refer to themselves as Umuchineke and if you are Igbo but not a member of their group you are called efulefu.So their hate is to everyone who is a none member of IPOB it does not matter whether you are Igbo or not.None Igbo IPOB members are also called Umuchineke like Omote Biafra from ISOKO in Delta state.

They have made a mess of the once stable estern region

THE SHOCKING INSINCERITY OF THE IGBO INTELLECTUALS OVER NNAMDI KANU AND IPOB IS AN EMBARRASSMENT

(By Emeka Ugwuonye, Esquire)

Due process advocate (DPA)

https://trendsdynamics..com/2021/11/the-shocking-insincerity-of-igbo.html?m=1



At the risk of provoking further discontent among some of my fellow Igbo intellectuals, I make bold to express my sense of frustration and embarrassment at the failure of our educated class to speak up against the tide of violence occasioned by the vitriols and hate-mongering by own people.



Behind every genocide, every ethnic cleansing or civil war lies a sustained period of bigotry, intolerance, chauvinism, xenophibia, narrow-mindedness, ethnic superiority and other forms of hate and exclusion, all mostly conveyed through speeches and malicious utterances. And during that period incubation of evil, good men, lawyer, bishops, traditional rules, etc would be silent and indifferent. These dangerous words ultimately explode like a bomb and plunge the society into bloodshed and war. Whether it was in Bosnia, in Rwanda or in Nigeria of the 1960s, dangerous words lead to genocide and war. It doesn’t really matter whether the flow is from the strong toward the weak or from the weak toward the strong. Voltaire, the most significant enlightenment philosopher, was therefore right and universal when he wrote that: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”



For many years, and counting, Nnamdi Kanu led the Igbo youths in this sustained mission of vitriols and extreme language of hate in describing our neighbors and fellow Nigerians. For him people from his tribe (the Igbos) were called “Umuchineke” (God’s children) while, expressly and by implication, others were “Umuekwensu” (Devil’s children) or “Umuanumani” (children of the beast) or the people of the zoo or the supporters of APC. And the Igbo intellectuals would listen to these daily broadcasts without saying a word in opposition. If you accept that we, the Igbos, are exclusively Umuchineke, what are the non-Igbos in our country or elsewhere? You laughed and felt good that you were Umuchineke and you failed to realize the fire these words and ideas were stoking in the country. And you call yourself educated person. Thank God we avoided the full consequences of this bigotry.



We, the Igbo intellectuals, had a duty to say no. We had a duty to say we do not accept this wholesale condemnation of others or the attempt to adjudge others to be inferior to the Igbos. Whatever the anger and whatever the brooding sense of injustice we, the Igbos, have felt in Nigeria, we still had the moral duty to rise above board and not descend to the levels we condemn. We failed. Our silence emboldened Nnamdi Kanu. Our indifference encourage bigotry and the seed of hate was planted on daily basis in our presence.



It is an irony that the Igbos have so many Bishops who could voice a position on anything. It is an irony that these men of God were so silent when the language of hate permeated the air and polluted our society. Or maybe the Bishops were the source of the idea that we are Umuchineke and others were impliedly Umuekwensu. I would like to assume that the Igbo Bishops are educated people, that they are men of God, and that they are lovers of peace. They did not show that, when their leadership was needed the most. And now they are failing to understand how suspicious they sound in their current position in the Nnamdi Kanu case. Yes, they should help pursue justice and peace. But they should just beg and pray for forgiveness. To think that what Nnamdi Kanu was up to was good is a betrayal of the youth and God by these Bishops.



Lovers of peace must want peace for all. Lovers of justice must seek justice for all. As long as you want peace and justice only for Umuchineke, you will have neither peace nor justice.

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Burruchaga71:
Nigeria will never know peace until MNK is released. This is what I have seen

Normalcy is already retuning to south east.

mbaise1000:
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Kanu did not miscalculate, if he did, then every igbo person has miscalculated and that's impossible, the only reason more than 95% igbos are behind Kanu is because they feel what he feels and I and agree with what he wants, as a fact more than 80% of Nigerians want the same thing but are so dumb to realise that or so afraid to speak up, anyone who sees beyond one year ahead will know that Kanu's court case is the average nigerian's court case

The miscalculation lead to unknown gunmen saga lost of life and destruction of businesses and even reduced the chance of igbo presidency.

Any reasonable person understands the dangar of kanus miscalculation to igbos in nigeria politics

vanbonattel:
It has caused the biggest confusion in the whole Nigeria, nay Africa.

I have never seen a case where the whole judges, FG legal team and even the AGF are running away from an accused

They can only run but cannot hide.

Nnamdi Kanu is a great man indeed.

He only created problem for the igbos