On Thursday, a federal high court in Abuja sentenced the
IPOB leader to life imprisonment.

In a statement on Saturday, Ejiofor said he was compelled to
speak after receiving an “avalanche of calls” from supporters expressing
concern over developments surrounding Kanu’s case.

He said his team secured “landmark victories” between 2015
and 2023, including the 2022 court of appeal judgment, which discharged and
acquitted Kanu.

He said the legal progress made at the time was derailed
after Kanu allegedly shared sensitive information with “clueless clowns” who
persuaded him to alter the defence structure.

According to him, the decision led to the exit of his legal
team, including that of Mike Ozekhome, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who
assumed leadership in 2022.

He said the new “legal actors reduced an internationally
sensitive trial into a parody of legal representation”.

“A high-profile, internationally sensitive criminal trial is
not a circus ring,” he said.

“But once these bloated, delusional entertainers-in-wigs
inserted themselves into the process, everything degenerated into a grotesque
parody of legal representation.

“Instead of crafting legal strategy, they crafted Instagram
stories. Instead of mastering case law, they mastered camera angles.

“At every court session, their priority wasn’t research or
preparation, it was posing, filming, updating, grandstanding, and going viral.
Meanwhile, the accused man’s fate hung by a thread.”

He said the development contributed to an “avoidable
outcome”, including a trial and conviction that “could have been prevented”.

Ejiofor said misinformation shared online by the new team
repeatedly contradicted courtroom proceedings.

He said the contradictions provided openings for the
prosecution, and questioned how senior lawyers such as Kanu Agabi and Onyechi
Ikpeazu were sidelined “at the most critical moment of the trial”.

He said the matter was “hijacked by mediocre adventurers
intoxicated by social-media relevance”.

Ejiofor said the situation requires a reset anchored on
competence, sobriety and reduced publicity.

He said globally respected legal experts can only intervene
after a “comprehensive clean-up” of what he described as “monumental damage”.

On Friday, Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of Kanu, criticised her
husband’s legal consultants for failing to brief her on his transfer to Sokoto
prison.

Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to Kanu, earlier announced that the
IPOB leader has been transferred to a correctional centre in Sokoto following
his conviction.