SPONSORED PROPAGANDA ON NNAMDI KANU AND SOWORE
Abraham Madu
REBUTTAL TO WITHIN NIGERIA’S SPONSORED PROPAGANDA ON NNAMDI KANU AND SOWORE
ISSUED BY: COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, SPOKESPERSON/MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB)
DATE: OCTOBER 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION:
The so-called “analysis” published by WITHIN NIGERIA under the title “Political Solution to IPOB Impasse: Sowore and the Case for Nnamdi Kanu’s Release” is not journalism — it is state-sponsored propaganda dressed up as commentary.
Its author, one Afolabi Hakim- who should be more concerned about how Yorubas arr being chased away from their ancestral homes by Fulani terrorists and bandits- writes like a man clutching a government script, mixing insult with ignorance, and pretending it is objectivity. The piece reeks of the same intellectual dishonesty that has sustained five years of illegal detention and courtroom circus in the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Hakim parrots half-truths about Kanu’s trial but hides the most important facts:
Justice Binta Nyako herself said in open court that the seven counts “do not disclose any offence known to law,” yet she chose to “allow the prosecution to show what they have in evidence.”
Translation: the charges are empty. The trial survives only on judicial courtesy, not substance.
The Federal Government originally charged treasonable felony but abandoned it and illegally switched to terrorism using a one-sided ex parte order granted in 2017 by Justice Kafarati — an order obtained in secret, without hearing IPOB, and in direct defiance of Justice Nyako’s earlier ruling that IPOB was not an unlawful organisation.
Every serious lawyer knows that a court order obtained ex parte against a group already declared lawful by another court is a nullity. Yet that illegal foundation became the platform for branding millions of unarmed citizens as “terrorists.” That is the original sin the author pretends not to see.
Hakim mentions Kanu’s “repatriation” from Kenya as if it was routine extradition. It was extraordinary rendition — an international crime.
No warrant, no process, no treaty procedure — just an abduction in violation of both Kenyan and Nigerian law.
Every civilised nation recognises that a trial built on an illegal capture is itself tainted.
The Court of Appeal acknowledged this when it discharged Kanu on October 13 2022.
The Supreme Court’s later decision to allow trial continuation on December 15 2023 did not legalise the crime of rendition; it merely permitted proceedings to resume while Nigeria’s violations remain unresolved.
Hakim’s silence on this is not oversight; it is complicity.
Comparing Kanu to Simon Ekpa: A Lazy Lie:
Only a hack would compare two completely unrelated legal realities:
Ekpa was tried in Finland under Finnish law for offences committed on Finnish soil.
Kanu is being tried in Nigeria for speeches allegedly made outside Nigeria, with no evidence linking him personally to any act of violence.
Even the prosecution witnesses under oath — PW2 and PW3 — could not identify a single violent act directed or ordered by Kanu.
That is why the government keeps shifting its theory of the case like a drunk man groping in the dark.
If this was an “open and shut” case as Hakeem claims, why has Nigeria’s billion-naira prosecution team not finished it long ago.
Instead, we have five years of adjournments, charge amendments, disobedience to court orders, and illegal detentions in a secret DSS cell.
Delay is not proof of guilt — it is proof of state incompetence and malice.
Smearing Sowore Shows Fear, Not Strength:
Hakim’s attack on Omoyele Sowore for demanding Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s release exposes the establishment’s terror of peaceful activism.
Sowore’s call is grounded in law and morality: when a government can’t prove its case, it must either prosecute properly or release the accused.
Peaceful marches, lawful protests and civic mobilisations are rights guaranteed under Sections 39 and 40 of the Nigerian Constitution.
Calling them “reckless” is how dictatorships start.
The Proscription of IPOB Scam:
The writer hides the dirty truth about the IPOB proscription:
It was done behind closed doors in 2017 through a secret ex parte motion, without giving IPOB a chance to defend itself.
That order contradicted a subsisting Federal High Court judgment that had already ruled IPOB was not an unlawful society.
Even worse, the government used that illegal order to change the entire case from treason to terrorism.
That is textbook abuse of process. And because the order’s validity is still being challenged, it cannot be the basis for detaining anyone.
The Talk of “Remorse” Is Absurd:
Hakim’s sermon that Kanu “must show remorse” is laughable.
Remorse comes after conviction, not before trial.
Demanding an apology from a man the state has not lawfully proven guilty is the clearest sign that the government — and its media errand boys — have no evidence, only propaganda.
This entire smear campaign is part of the same old playbook:
demonise the victim, hide the government’s crimes, and drown the public in emotional blackmail.
But Nigerians are not fools.
They know that:
The army’s invasion of Kanu’s home in 2017 was unlawful.
His kidnapping from Kenya violated international law.
The Court of Appeal’s discharge remains a binding judicial record.
The charges before Justice Nyako disclose no known offence in Nigerian law.
No amount of media distortion can erase those facts.
The Real “Political Solution”:
A political solution is not weakness — it is wisdom.
The Constitution empowers the Attorney-General to discontinue any case in the public interest (nolle prosequi).
It empowers the President to grant clemency or amnesty.
Successive governments have used these powers for armed militants and even confessed terrorists.
Using them for a political prisoner who has already spent years in detention without conviction is not charity — it is justice delayed.
The Verdict on Afolabi Hakim and His Likes:
Afolabi Hakim is not an analyst; he is an echo chamber for power.
His article is filled with reckless adjectives — “barbarism,” “tyranny,” “nefarious” — but zero evidence, zero law, and zero integrity.
If propaganda could win court cases, the DSS would have secured conviction years ago.
But law requires proof, not press releases.
You Can’t Bury the Truth:
Every lie told about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu eventually collapses under its own weight.
From the illegal proscription to the unlawful rendition, from the fake charges to the endless trial, the state has built its case on sand.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s demand is simple: follow the law.
Sowore’s campaign is simple: do the right thing.
And our message to hired hacks like Afolabi Hakim is equally simple: Nigeria’s conscience is not for sale.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA SPOKESPERSON/MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
Ntị ọdị kwa?
Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụogụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
OBI KENOBI
OBI KENOBI
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Afis Deinde
On Oct 14, 2025, at 9:27 AM, Imperial <imperi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you, Kenobi.If all Igbos had your perspective, there'd be no need for arguments with other Nigerians.There are some fair-minded Igbos who are balanced in their comments and judgments, like Charles Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State.Bad people exist in every ethnicity, so it's puzzling that some supposedly well-educated Igbos try to cover up Nnamdi Kanu's actions.Sent from my iPhone
On 14 Oct 2025, at 13:56, OBI KENOBI <donk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Not sure what you’re driving at - but Nnamdi Kanu was a complete terrorist.Complete.All this verbal gymnastics will it change a jot of what I heard with my own ears - read with my own eyes.If he’s repentant, that’s a different story.But to try to portray him as innocent, that’s taking it too far.
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femi Olajide
It seems the grey area here is what you define as terrorism. Terrorism and the common definition is threat or act of terror to achieve a political goal. Simple.
What you now need to test are two things to define a terrorist or terrorist group.
1. Was terror threatened by an individual or group e.g. IPOB to achieve a political goal?
2. Was act of terror perpetrated by an individual or group e.g. IPOB to achieve a political goal?
If your answer to any or either of the above questions is YES, then the individual or group is classified as a terrorist group.
Simply the threat of unleashing terror without the actual act of terror qualifies the individual or group as a terrorist. Terror include intimidation, threat and act of unleashing mayhem forcefully all constitutes terror acts. Not just the act of armed conflict, combat, guerilla warfare or bombing. They are all act of terror, different sides of the same coin
Regards,
Femi Olajide
REBUTTAL TOWITHIN NIGERIA’S SPONSORED PROPAGANDA ON NNAMDI KANU AND SOWORE
ISSUED BY:COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, SPOKESPERSON/MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB)
DATE:OCTOBER 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION:
Theso-called “analysis” published by WITHIN NIGERIA under the title “PoliticalSolution to IPOB Impasse: Sowore and the Case for Nnamdi Kanu’s Release” is notjournalism — it is state-sponsored propaganda dressed up as commentary.
Its author,one Afolabi Hakim- who should be more concerned about how Yorubas arr beingchased away from their ancestral homes by Fulani terrorists and bandits- writeslike a man clutching a government script, mixing insult with ignorance, andpretending it is objectivity. The piece reeks of the same intellectualdishonesty that has sustained five years of illegal detention and courtroomcircus in the case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Hakimparrots half-truths about Kanu’s trial but hides the most important facts:
JusticeBinta Nyako herself said in open court that the seven counts “do not discloseany offence known to law,” yet she chose to “allow the prosecution to show whatthey have in evidence.”
Translation:the charges are empty. The trial survives only on judicial courtesy, notsubstance.
The FederalGovernment originally charged treasonable felony but abandoned it and illegallyswitched to terrorism using a one-sided ex parte order granted in 2017 byJustice Kafarati — an order obtained in secret, without hearing IPOB, and indirect defiance of Justice Nyako’s earlier ruling that IPOB was not an unlawfulorganisation.
Everyserious lawyer knows that a court order obtained ex parte against a groupalready declared lawful by another court is a nullity. Yet that illegalfoundation became the platform for branding millions of unarmed citizens as“terrorists.” That is the original sin the author pretends not to see.
Hakimmentions Kanu’s “repatriation” from Kenya as if it was routine extradition. Itwas extraordinary rendition — an international crime.
No warrant,no process, no treaty procedure — just an abduction in violation of both Kenyanand Nigerian law.
Everycivilised nation recognises that a trial built on an illegal capture is itselftainted.
The Court ofAppeal acknowledged this when it discharged Kanu on October 13 2022.
The SupremeCourt’s later decision to allow trial continuation on December 15 2023 did notlegalise the crime of rendition; it merely permitted proceedings to resumewhile Nigeria’s violations remain unresolved.
Hakim’ssilence on this is not oversight; it is complicity.
ComparingKanu to Simon Ekpa: A Lazy Lie:
Only a hackwould compare two completely unrelated legal realities:
Ekpa wastried in Finland under Finnish law for offences committed on Finnish soil.
Kanu isbeing tried in Nigeria for speeches allegedly made outside Nigeria, with noevidence linking him personally to any act of violence.
Even theprosecution witnesses under oath — PW2 and PW3 — could not identify a singleviolent act directed or ordered by Kanu.
That is whythe government keeps shifting its theory of the case like a drunk man gropingin the dark.
If this wasan “open and shut” case as Hakeem claims, why has Nigeria’s billion-nairaprosecution team not finished it long ago.
Instead, wehave five years of adjournments, charge amendments, disobedience to courtorders, and illegal detentions in a secret DSS cell.
Delay is notproof of guilt — it is proof of state incompetence and malice.
SmearingSowore Shows Fear, Not Strength:
Hakim’sattack on Omoyele Sowore for demanding Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s release exposes theestablishment’s terror of peaceful activism.
Sowore’scall is grounded in law and morality: when a government can’t prove its case,it must either prosecute properly or release the accused.
Peacefulmarches, lawful protests and civic mobilisations are rights guaranteed underSections 39 and 40 of the Nigerian Constitution.
Calling them“reckless” is how dictatorships start.
TheProscription of IPOB Scam:
The writerhides the dirty truth about the IPOB proscription:
It was donebehind closed doors in 2017 through a secret ex parte motion, without givingIPOB a chance to defend itself.
That ordercontradicted a subsisting Federal High Court judgment that had already ruledIPOB was not an unlawful society.
Even worse,the government used that illegal order to change the entire case from treasonto terrorism.
That istextbook abuse of process. And because the order’s validity is still beingchallenged, it cannot be the basis for detaining anyone.
The Talk of“Remorse” Is Absurd:
Hakim’ssermon that Kanu “must show remorse” is laughable.
Remorsecomes after conviction, not before trial.
Demanding anapology from a man the state has not lawfully proven guilty is the clearestsign that the government — and its media errand boys — have no evidence, onlypropaganda.
This entiresmear campaign is part of the same old playbook:
demonise thevictim, hide the government’s crimes, and drown the public in emotionalblackmail.
ButNigerians are not fools.
They knowthat:
The army’sinvasion of Kanu’s home in 2017 was unlawful.
Hiskidnapping from Kenya violated international law.
The Court ofAppeal’s discharge remains a binding judicial record.
The chargesbefore Justice Nyako disclose no known offence in Nigerian law.
No amount ofmedia distortion can erase those facts.
The Real“Political Solution”:
A politicalsolution is not weakness — it is wisdom.
TheConstitution empowers the Attorney-General to discontinue any case in thepublic interest (nolle prosequi).
It empowersthe President to grant clemency or amnesty.
Successivegovernments have used these powers for armed militants and even confessedterrorists.
Using themfor a political prisoner who has already spent years in detention withoutconviction is not charity — it is justice delayed.
The Verdicton Afolabi Hakim and His Likes:
AfolabiHakim is not an analyst; he is an echo chamber for power.
His articleis filled with reckless adjectives — “barbarism,” “tyranny,” “nefarious” — butzero evidence, zero law, and zero integrity.
Ifpropaganda could win court cases, the DSS would have secured conviction yearsago.
But lawrequires proof, not press releases.
You Can’tBury the Truth:
Every lietold about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu eventually collapses under its own weight.
From theillegal proscription to the unlawful rendition, from the fake charges to theendless trial, the state has built its case on sand.
Mazi NnamdiKanu’s demand is simple: follow the law.
Sowore’scampaign is simple: do the right thing.
And ourmessage to hired hacks like Afolabi Hakim is equally simple: Nigeria’sconscience is not for sale.
COMRADE EMMAPOWERFUL MEDIA SPOKESPERSON/MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
Ntị ọdị kwa?
Ya kpọtụba!
Ya gazie.
Ụmụ nne Abrahamụogụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.
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