The IPOB has denied that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, wrote a false letter, as claimed by Simon Ekpa, a Biafran separatist resident in Finland.
When asked if the letter from Kanu instructing Ekpa to cease the sit-in in the Southeast was genuine, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said it was.
On Friday, Kanu had written a letter to Ekpa, instructing him to call off the sit-in in the Southeast.

Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s Special Counsel, was the one to deliver the letter on his behalf.
Powerful, who had previously confirmed the letter, stated that Ekpa’s claim that Kanu’s letter was phoney was part of an effort to sow mischief.
On Saturday, Powerful released a statement in which he said, in part, that “the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) confirm the authenticity of the handwritten note of our leader penned to the Finland infiltrator and crime minister instructing him to end his infamous and reckless sit-at-homes.”
Avoiding repercussions on innocent persons, “it is pertinent to make the message disassociating Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB from the senseless enforcement of sit-at-home public.”
Kanu, in his wisdom, made sure the infiltrators heard the message from someone they could trust and through the proper channels.
They are trying to blackmail IPOB and Kanu with the brutal implementation of the infamous sit-at-homes that terrorise our people, and the assertions that Kanu’s handwritten message is phoney are part of their mischief to continue in their contract to do so.
We know that a crime minister drunk on power and his petty kangaroo de facto government in exile will disobey our order because it threatens to deflate his inflated sense of self-importance.
To all Nigeria Security Agencies, all foreign Embassies in Abuja, and the contractors of the infiltrators, we are distributing a note from our leader distancing himself and IPOB from the infamous sit-at-homes. Here at IPOB, we know more than the serpent.
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