The Indigenous People of Biafra has slammed what it described as the latest desperate attempt by the Federal Government and some sections of the media to divert public attention from the alleged disgraceful collapse of their case against its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB, while describing Kanu as a prisoner of conscience, being unlawfully detained in violation of local and international law, accused the Federal Government of concocting and fabricating lies to nail him instead of reporting on the embarrassing cross-examination of their witness, known as PW-BBB, who admitted under oath that no investigation report exists to support the politically motivated charges.
According to a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Powerful, titled “Federal Government’s Propaganda Fails Again,”;; the group rejects media diversion tactics with what it called the worthless death certificate of Ahmed Gulak.
IPOB stated further that the Federal Government was trying to link Gulak’s death to the group or Kanu, who knows nothing about it, in order to further delay the case.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, categorically condemns the latest desperate attempt by the Federal Government and its compromised media to divert public attention from the disgraceful collapse of their case against our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Rather than report on the embarrassing cross-examination of their confused witness, known as PW-BBB, who admitted under oath that no investigation report exists to support the politically motivated charges, the media is awash with irrelevant stories about the tendering of a death certificate.
“Let it be known that the so-called death certificate of Ahmed Gulak, former aide to ex-President Jonathan, has no evidentiary value whatsoever in the context of the ongoing trial.
The Federal Government’s prosecuting counsel, Awomolo SAN, acting with shocking dishonesty, attempted to reintroduce evidence after closing his examination-in-chief—an unethical and unacceptable legal manoeuvre designed only to mask the shame of a failed prosecution.
“It is important to set the record straight: The sit-at-home observance declared by IPOB for the annual 30th May Remembrance Day in 2021 was held on Monday, 31st May 2021, not Sunday the 30th. Gulak was murdered on Sunday, a full day before the observance.
“This timeline alone dismantles the fabricated claim that IPOB had any involvement in his death. The attempt to retrofit this tragic event into their crumbling narrative is not just deceitful, but it is criminal.
“We remind the world that this is not the first time the Nigerian state has weaponised misinformation and historical revisionism to justify ethnic prosecution,”;; the statement read in part.
