Nnamdi Kanu ‘removed’ as IPOB leader

<p><strong>The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra &lpar;IPOB&rpar; has reportedly been removed as the Director of the organisation&comma; and replaced with Sofia Chinyere Kalu&comma; the IPOB United Kingdom &lpar;UK&rpar; National Financial Secretary&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Ezeji Chukwuma&comma; a separatist who manages IPOB and Radio Biafra Community Interest Companies &lpar;CIC&rpar; Registry in London&comma; UK&comma; Kalu is the new Director of IPOB worldwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This claim was re-echoed by Simon Ekpa&comma; a self-styled disciple of Nnamdi Kanu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;13542" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-13542" style&equals;"width&colon; 113px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-13542" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;03&sol;FB&lowbar;IMG&lowbar;1646866552768-113x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"113" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-13542" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Sofia Kalu<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Investigations revealed that Kalu’s father is an Igbo man from Nigeria&comma; while her mother is South African&period; She is married to an Igbo man&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Who are those who removed Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from being the leader of Indigenous people of Biafra world wide&quest;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> Ekpa quizzed on his known Twitter handle on Wednesday night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13544" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;20220310&lowbar;014045-300x194&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"194" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a subsequent broadcast&comma; Ekpa claimed that<em><strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;they want to use a woman who knows nothing about the Biafran struggle to destroy Mazi Nnamdi Kanu”&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13543" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;20220310&lowbar;003903-300x119&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"119" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>IPOB’s memo to UK members on March 5<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; on paper&comma; Kanu&comma; who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services &lpar;DSS&rpar; since June 2021&comma; has been removed as the leader of IPOB&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;former-speaker-of-nigerias-house-of-representatives-is-dead&sol;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">Former Nigerian House Of Representatives Speaker Is Dead &lbrack;PHOTO&rsqb;<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>He cited a March 5 Memo to IPOB UK members by its Directorate of States &lpar;DoS&rpar;&comma; headed by Chika Edoziem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Politics Nigeria<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;