SOLUDO, UZODINMA, UMAHI — THE POLITICAL FRONT FOR DEMARKETING KANU AND ABANDONING BIAFRA
WEEKLY ADDRESS
By Mazi Chris Nwaọgụ
Head of the Fourth Administration, Directorate of State (DOS)
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Sunday, 9 August 2026
My dear Biafrans, our family members at home and in the Diaspora, and every friend of justice who continues to stand with this struggle,
I greet you in the name of Yahweh and in the unyielding spirit of Biafra.
1. Opening & International Developments
Last week we directed your attention to the diplomatic work unfolding in key centres of power. This week I bring you further updates.
The IPOB Elders Advisory Council, working together with our Washington D.C. lobbyists, held a meeting with the United States State Department. The discussion focused on the ongoing Jihadist slaughter against Judeo-Christians in parts of Biafraland—a campaign that Nigerian media continues to underreport. The meeting was fruitful. Diplomatic etiquette prevents us from revealing the full details of what was discussed, but I want every Biafran to be reassured: we are not relenting. The work continues quietly and steadily.
We also warmly welcome back our Woman Leader, Madam Bridget Okafor, to United States soil after her extended visitation to Sokoto to see our leader, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Their discussions were both fruitful and insightful. They shed further light on why our leader remains in illegal captivity—a captivity sustained by the Nigerian state with the active diplomatic cover and moral support of the United Kingdom.
I mention the United Kingdom deliberately. UK policy on the illegal detention of its citizens abroad is clear. Where there is suspicion of lack of fair hearing, where the interest of natural justice will not be served, or where a fair trial is a manifest impossibility, the United Kingdom is obliged to intervene. Yet in this case, the Supreme Court of Nigeria itself—upon whose remittal the sham trial and conviction were entered—stated that "the impartiality of the trial judge was suspect." In other words, the Federal High Court Abuja that tried our leader was biased. Despite this, the UK Government has continued to provide cover for this travesty of justice.
They claim they have not yet received a response to their Note Verbale submitted since June 2021. Five years have passed. Five years of illegal detention. Five years of torture. Five years of a sham trial. And the UK still claims it is waiting for a response. This is not diplomacy. This is complicity. This is a country that presents itself as a champion of human values while actively providing diplomatic cover for the persecution of a British citizen.
Some elements within the UK Government appear to be in the pocket of the Islamic Caliphate operating inside Nigeria and are content to maintain a policy that targets any Biafran bold enough to speak about Biafra. The UK must tell the world why it keeps ignoring its own stated policy when it is clear that Justice Omotosho destroyed the basic foundations of law, reason, and even the ordinary understanding of the English language. The United Kingdom cannot pretend it is unaware of its role in the ordeal our leader continues to suffer.
2. Response to Propaganda & Internal Challenges
Biafrans, it does not require any special revelation to understand what our enemies are doing. Any reasonable person observing the events of the past five years can see clearly the agenda that has been mapped out against our struggle. The pattern is unmistakable. The Nigerian government, with the support of certain elements within the UK, has pursued a deliberate strategy to destroy the quest for Biafra. It is not difficult to understand. The evidence is there for all to see.
First, indefinite and illegal detention. Through illegal rendition, prolonged detention, torture, a sham trial, a laughable conviction, and biased sentencing to Sokoto Custodial Centre, they hoped to compel our leader to abandon Biafra restoration.
By Mazi Chris Nwaọgụ
Head of the Fourth Administration, Directorate of State (DOS)
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Sunday, 9 August 2026
My dear Biafrans, our family members at home and in the Diaspora, and every friend of justice who continues to stand with this struggle,
I greet you in the name of Yahweh and in the unyielding spirit of Biafra.
1. Opening & International Developments
Last week we directed your attention to the diplomatic work unfolding in key centres of power. This week I bring you further updates.
The IPOB Elders Advisory Council, working together with our Washington D.C. lobbyists, held a meeting with the United States State Department. The discussion focused on the ongoing Jihadist slaughter against Judeo-Christians in parts of Biafraland—a campaign that Nigerian media continues to underreport. The meeting was fruitful. Diplomatic etiquette prevents us from revealing the full details of what was discussed, but I want every Biafran to be reassured: we are not relenting. The work continues quietly and steadily.
We also warmly welcome back our Woman Leader, Madam Bridget Okafor, to United States soil after her extended visitation to Sokoto to see our leader, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Their discussions were both fruitful and insightful. They shed further light on why our leader remains in illegal captivity—a captivity sustained by the Nigerian state with the active diplomatic cover and moral support of the United Kingdom.
I mention the United Kingdom deliberately. UK policy on the illegal detention of its citizens abroad is clear. Where there is suspicion of lack of fair hearing, where the interest of natural justice will not be served, or where a fair trial is a manifest impossibility, the United Kingdom is obliged to intervene. Yet in this case, the Supreme Court of Nigeria itself—upon whose remittal the sham trial and conviction were entered—stated that "the impartiality of the trial judge was suspect." In other words, the Federal High Court Abuja that tried our leader was biased. Despite this, the UK Government has continued to provide cover for this travesty of justice.
They claim they have not yet received a response to their Note Verbale submitted since June 2021. Five years have passed. Five years of illegal detention. Five years of torture. Five years of a sham trial. And the UK still claims it is waiting for a response. This is not diplomacy. This is complicity. This is a country that presents itself as a champion of human values while actively providing diplomatic cover for the persecution of a British citizen.
Some elements within the UK Government appear to be in the pocket of the Islamic Caliphate operating inside Nigeria and are content to maintain a policy that targets any Biafran bold enough to speak about Biafra. The UK must tell the world why it keeps ignoring its own stated policy when it is clear that Justice Omotosho destroyed the basic foundations of law, reason, and even the ordinary understanding of the English language. The United Kingdom cannot pretend it is unaware of its role in the ordeal our leader continues to suffer.
2. Response to Propaganda & Internal Challenges
Biafrans, it does not require any special revelation to understand what our enemies are doing. Any reasonable person observing the events of the past five years can see clearly the agenda that has been mapped out against our struggle. The pattern is unmistakable. The Nigerian government, with the support of certain elements within the UK, has pursued a deliberate strategy to destroy the quest for Biafra. It is not difficult to understand. The evidence is there for all to see.
First, indefinite and illegal detention. Through illegal rendition, prolonged detention, torture, a sham trial, a laughable conviction, and biased sentencing to Sokoto Custodial Centre, they hoped to compel our leader to abandon Biafra restoration.
But Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made his position clear to those they sent: they are mad; they should leave his presence and return only with concrete referendum proposals before he will speak to them. That is why the UK has never raised a serious finger despite Nigeria being in breach of every civilised rule and norm. To this day, the UK claims it has not yet received a response from Nigeria after more than five years of illegal kidnapping and rendition. This is a country that presents itself as a champion of human values.
Second, divide IPOB so that there would be no potent platform left for the agitation. Since 2016, the Nigerian government has tried to infiltrate and destroy IPOB from within. They floated many groups and failed. Only after the 2021 rendition did they succeed in recruiting compromised individuals within the Kuje-appointed 3rd Administration. They felt confident they could execute their plan. They failed. Those individuals have been sacked and expelled from IPOB.
Third, cause the Igbo race to hate and abandon Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Sokoto. Chukwuma Soludo, Hope Uzodinma, and Dave Umahi stand at the forefront of this campaign. These persons successfully infiltrated the disgraced Chika Edoziem-led 3rd Administration through Ifeanyi Ejiofor. They have recruited, and are still actively recruiting, people to lie against our leader in public. Their aim is to demarket him so that when he is eventually released, Igbos will reject him, he will flee into exile in disgrace, and abandon Biafra in the process.
Fortunately for this movement, our leader is the most stubborn and dedicated individual I know. He eats, sleeps, dreams, and lives for Biafra. He is not merely committed—he is destructively stubborn, fanatical about Biafra to the point of insanity. He believes that without Biafra his life is worthless. He has abandoned everything in his life to pursue Biafra restoration, despite knowing that our people are often slow to appreciate individual sacrifice. He remains undeterred.
That is why he instituted and solemnised 30th May as Heroes Remembrance Day—so that Biafrans will never forget those who died for them to live. He knows there are people like him who are fanatically dedicated to Biafra restoration. He called them the 100 men.
I can assure the world that these men and women of the Divine Project are working silently to accomplish our freedom. We are united as one family. No more Autopilot. No more this group or that group. We are one family in IPOB.
The conspiracy of our enemies has failed. Our leader is even more resolute now than ever before.
3. Welfare of Detained and Deceased IPOB Members
Work continues on documenting the cases of our people held in various detention facilities and on contacting their families. Our attorneys remain under instruction to keep the public informed of concrete steps being taken. We will not abandon any of our own.
4. Legal Position on the Proscription of IPOB
The ex parte order proscribing IPOB remains illegal. Our appeal before the Supreme Court of Nigeria is pending. Nigerian law is clear: the right of free association cannot be taken away without proper notice. We continue to circulate the original Gazette so that Biafrans and the world can see for themselves that membership of IPOB was never proscribed.
5. Peace and Security in Biafraland
We maintain our call for de-escalation of tension in Ihiala and surrounding areas. The false narrative that ESN is responsible for insecurity continues to be pushed by those on the payroll of the Nigerian state. The record shows that insecurity in the South-East has been state-sponsored. We again urge the Anambra State Government to publish the Professor Chidi Odinkalu-led panel report, which exonerated IPOB and our leader.
6. Update on Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's Appeal Biafrans, let us understand clearly the legal significance of what the Supreme Court of Nigeria has already pronounced. The Supreme Court found bias against Justice Nyako, the original trial judge. That contaminated case file—with all its infirmities and procedural irregularities—was inherited by Justice Omotosho, who proceeded to conduct a sham trial and deliver a conviction that is a nullity in law.
But let us go further. The sentencing of our leader to Sokoto Custodial Centre is itself a damning indictment of the bias that pervades this entire charade. Consider the facts: Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has, since 2016 when he was in Kuje, been instrumental in securing the release of countless Northerners from detention through his legal interventions and advocacy. He has fought for the freedom of Northern Muslims and Christians alike. Yet the same man who has helped set free Northern people, from Kuje to Sokoto, is now condemned to a prison in the very region he has served—because of a judicial system that has abandoned all pretence of fairness.
This is a clear case of bias. To send a man who has consistently demonstrated compassion for Northerners to a custodial centre in Sokoto, surrounded by killer herdsmen and elements hostile to his existence, while ignoring his record of service to the people of that region, is not justice. It is persecution. It is vengeance. And it is a transparent act of judicial malice that, on its own, consigns Justice Omotosho's conviction and judgment to the dustbin of infamy.
The great English jurist Lord Hewart CJ laid down the eternal principle in R v. Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy (1924):
"Justice must not only be done, but must manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done."
Where a judge is biased—or where bias is reasonably apprehended—justice is not seen to be done. The entire proceedings collapse. The proceedings are declared a nullity, void from the beginning. The judgment is set aside, quashed with no legal effect. The sentence is invalid, leaving no lawful basis for detention. The remedy is a retrial before a different judge. The biased judge is disqualified and may face disciplinary action by the National Judicial Council. And the continued detention becomes illegal, based as it is on a void judgment.
This is why Nigeria continues to run from its own courts. They are afraid that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will bury them with their own laws. Any day the Nigerian government finds the courage to meet us in a proper appellate process, Omotosho and those who collaborated with him will discover that they do not know the law.
The conviction entered without any extant written law remains a nullity. Our leader has survived numerous attempts on his life—through wrong medication, poison, and planned attacks by killer herdsmen at Sokoto Custodial Centre. He will survive to lead us into Biafra. His dream is Biafra and nothing else.
7. Unity, Momentum & Broader Strategic Work
The Divine Project continues its quiet, disciplined work. The conspiracy to divide us has failed. We are one family again. The international engagements in Washington and the consistent legal pressure at home and abroad form part of the same advancing front. We are not where our enemies wanted us to be.
8. Closing
Kudos to the resolute families of IPOB around the world and to the excellent men and women of the Fourth Administration. Bravo to the 100 men and women of the Divine Project who continue to execute with excellence. Glory to Yahweh, the God of Justice.
Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu must be released immediately and unconditionally.
Biafra is coming — whether they like it or not.
In Defence of Freedom.
Thank you. May Yahweh continue to strengthen us all. And may the dawn we have worked, prayed, and sacrificed for break soon over a free Biafra.
Mazi Chris Nwaọgụ
Head, Fourth Administration
Directorate of State (DOS)
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
Sunday, 9 August 2026
