July 11, 2024
The “BRGIE” issue has become internationalised particularly since after the IPOB leader MAZI NNAMDI KANU was kidnaped by the Nigerian government in connivance with the Kenyan authorities, and consequently The Election of EKPA SIMON NJOKU as the Prime Minister of the Biafran Government in Exile. Recently EKPA and the project #BIAFRAMASSEXODUS2024 via BRGIE have been highlighted in Africa confidential, an exclusive international publication, with the assistance of BRGIE lobbyists." “Ekpa, who is a local councillor for the conservative National Coalition Party in Finland, took over the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) following the detention of former leader Nnamdi Kanu (AC V ol 65 No 4,Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign). Calls for Kanu’s release are multiplying as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government ignored serial orders from High Court judges in Abuja deeming his detention to be illegal. The Biafra organisation’s contract with Moran is far less lucrative than that with IPOB’s previous K-Street advocates Mercury LLC. That raised conflict of interest questions when Mercury staffers in London started working for former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who was campaigning to be Director General of the World Trade Organization, with the backing of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. Buhari’s government had taken an extremely hard line against Kanu and his followers and was unimpressed by Mercury’s lobbying efforts. Moran is drawing clearer lines about the aim of his campaign on behalf of Njoku’s organisation. He commits to supporting ‘Biafra’s fundamental goal to encourage the United States government to support Biafran independence’. The lobbying contract takes a strong oppositional stance against the Tinubu government in Nigeria. It promises to ‘educate US and non-US stakeholders’ on issues of concern about the Tinubu government ‘…including: human rights abuses, religious freedom issues, persecution of Nigeria’s Christians, increasing Islamic……”
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