Kalu had in a surprise move visited Kanu in the detention facility of the Department of State Services in Abuja.
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The lawyer levelled the allegation in a statement on Saturday following Kalu’s visit to Kanu last week in Abuja.
He also described as empty positioning for political office, the recent visit to Kanu by a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu.
The date was fixed following an application for abridgement of time filed by counsel to the IPOB leader, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
The IPOB made the allegation in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, on Saturday.
Okechukwu also appealed to the secessionist group to support the Nigerian president of Igbo extraction 2023 project.
Ejimakor and another counsel for Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, made this known in a statement jointly signed on Thursday.
Usman, popularly called Mr LA, made his position known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday.
The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Power, gave the directive on Thursday in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, Anambra State.
But there was confusion as Kanu’s team of lawyers staged a walkout over the refusal of operatives of the Department of State Services to allow some of them to gain access into the courtroom.
The Council Area where the supplementary governorship election is being conducted had been notorious for security volatility, which contributed to the poll shift.
The group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday after denying IPOB’s involvement in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election.
This was made public by the Media and Publicity Secretary of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Thursday.
This comes after the group ordered a sit-at-home in protest of the arrest and detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, which calls for his immediate release.
This is as they also urged the Federal Government to demilitarise the South-East zone in a bid to stem the heightened tension in the area.
The group spoke on Saturday night in a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful.
The allegation was levelled by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Friday.
The UN’s position was contained in its Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments; the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; Special Rapporteur on minority issues and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.
While Dokpesi has a right to air his opinions, his laments are indicative of the widespread, largely tenuous, phobia of the Igbo in Nigeria. It explains why for several decades after the Civil War, the South-East geopolitical zone has remained underdeveloped, and also why its indigenes have been systematically excluded from aspiring to principal national offices, such as the Presidency. Dokpesi simply expressed the true feelings in certain sections of the country about the place of the Igbo in Nigerian politics. It was an attempt to justify the continued brazen marginalization of one of the principal ethnic groups in the management of the country’s affairs.
The cleric who is known to have access to bandits had once asked the federal government to grant them blanket amnesty.