The protracted supremacy feud between the IPOB Directorate Of State, DOS, and Mr Simon Ekpa, the self styled Kanu’s disciple on Biafraland restoration, appears to have reached a crescendo.

Ekpa had recently been making scathing remarks on the DOS and it’s modus operandi to extent of aligning his position to that of ex Ijaw militant Asari Dokubo.

While the DOS had reportedly suspended the weekly Monday Sit-at-home protest, Ekpa and loyalists have sustained it to embarrassment of the DOS and associates.

Today, Simon Ekpa, has tweeted and declared that they will no longer take orders from their leader.

Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS ever since he was captured in Kenya and extraordinarily rendered back to Nigeria in June 2021.

Kanu had reportedly directed that Simon Ekpa should stand in for him as Director of Radio Biafra.

However, this order did not go well with the people at the DOS, and this appears to be genesis of the face-off between them and Ekpa.
Ekpa and associates who have been in a serious face-off with the highest decision-making organ of IPOB- Directorate of State (DOS), in a tweet on Tuesday said their struggle has entered a “liberation phase”, this won’t be deferring to Kanu, who’s incarcerated for orders.

He wrote: “We have entered the liberation phase of Biafra Nation & we are not taking orders from our leader who is incarceration.”

“We must do everything to secure his unconditional release and to restore and liberate Biafra from Nigeria. Our freedom from Nigeria is nonnegotiable.”

Overwhelmed by the backlash his earlier tweet was s receiving, Ekpa who had said the struggle is now on ‘Auto pilot’ quickly made another face-saving tweet to explain what he said earlier.

“Those who do not understand this message, what it simply means is that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will not be held responsible for the actions of Biafra people as we have entered the liberation.

“So, the order of the liberation of Biafra and to secure his release can not be used against him.”