Disclaimer Against False Accusations: Family Writers Press International Cannot and Will Not Plot Against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

 27th August, 2025  Disclaimer Against False Accusations: Family Writers Press International Cannot and Will Not Plot Against Mazi Nnamdi Ka...

 27th August, 2025 

Disclaimer Against False Accusations: Family Writers Press International Cannot and Will Not Plot Against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu 

Our attention has once again been drawn to spurious accusations being peddled by agents of confusion who alleges that Family Writers Press International(FWPI) and its founder, Mazi Emeka Gift, are plotting against Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ahead of his overdue, expected release. Such allegations are nothing but lies and misinformation manufactured to cause division within the Biafra restoration movement. 

We wish to state firmly and clearly: Family Writers Press International cannot, and will never plot against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. We do not even possess such capacity, and even if we wanted, which we absolutely do not, we are not foolish enough not to know the impossibility and danger of such actions. Those pushing this narrative are doing the work of Biafra’s enemies, whether knowingly or unknowingly. 

For over the years, Family Writers Press International have stood as unwavering media arm of this movement, faithfully documenting, defending, and projecting the Biafra restoration agenda to the watching world. We have journeyed through all the painful and glorious times of this struggle and never capitulated for a minute. 

The experiences from our many years of loyalty to this cause has taught us that the struggle has been passing through many stages, and the stage we are now is critical; it is the stage of building and consolidating the institutional face of the Biafra restoration movement. This is not a threat to Onyendu or his irreplaceable position in the IPOB movement rather a pragmatic reality at hand. 

The Biafra nation we seek to restore is a republic in all sense of work per-admission by Onyendu and his team of leadership, and in a republic the institution and systematic framework supercedes above all and in expectation of that foreseeable reality it is only important to defend this resolution especially at a time when there are concerted efforts by fifth columnists to sway this ordained conviction in minds of the Biafran people.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu also foresaw a day like this, which is why he set up the IPOB Directorate of State(DOS) in the manner he did ahead of this time, drawing members from different continents with utmost loyalty to the Biafra cause at heart, to ensure no one can bottle the movement or be used to derail it. That wisdom of Onyendu remains the foundation we defend today. 

Now, it is important for Biafrans to understand something crucial: Onyendu is human or at least relies on humans to be able to discharge his duties as the leader of the IPOB movement. It is a false notion to assume that Onyendu when ill-advised or misinformed cannot make unfavorable decisions. No one dares question the mental or psychological state of the IPOB leader even in incarceration, however the IPOB movement is poised and obliged to evaluate any decision made under wrong influence and which is subtly unfavorable to his freedom or the Biafra quest for self-determination especially as he stays illegally confined by the Nigerian government. 

We cannot forget how Onyendu was wrongly advised to authorize his siblings to float a different national radio; a divisive error that served no purpose. We remember how he was wrongly convinced to order that IPOB leadership should not have access to funds, thereby slowing down the movement’s engine at a very critical time. We also recall his decision to allow Simon Ekpa a slot on Radio Biafra — a decision that almost destroyed his defense in the legal tussle between him and the federal government and nearly cemented the false terrorism tag on IPOB, if not for the resilience of the DOS. 

Furthermore, his ill-informed order at one point that the DOS must never respond to Simon Ekpa came at a time when Simon was wreaking havoc, destroying Ala-Igbo with lies and criminality. However, when he was later informed of the chaos the criminal was constituting in Biafraland, Onyendu in open court denounced his criminal activities, telling the world and Biafrans he had absolutely nothing to do with criminals masquerading as Biafra freedom activists. This happened much later after he had reportedly ordered the IPOB leadership and media to not expose the criminal using his name, influence and that of the IPOB movement to commit crimes. 

So, one can see it is incumbent on those entrusted with administrative aptitude to evaluate and filter those unfavorable decisions. This is why we believed and posited that, upon his release, Onyendu would take his time to carefully investigate every claim and counter-claim made in his absence before arriving at any major decision to determine if his lieutenants were truly insubordinate to some of his ill-advised orders. This is not a decision we made on behalf of Onyendu but rather the right thing to do and Onyendu himself in his profound wisdom knows this too. It is called thorough assessment. 

It is imperative to stress that Family Writers Press International (FWPI) is not a decision making department in the Biafra struggle neither do we hold lobbying power to influence decisions made by the IPOB leadership (Onyendu included) whether he is in detention or not, however we owe it the people of Biafra and the IPOB global family and our journalistic call to straighten opinion and suggest favorably to the Biafra cause, as a responsible and media platform.

Our insistence and apparent opposition to the misconstrued slogan of “whatever Nnamdi Kanu says when he is released goes,” is because we believe that the IPOB movement operates not on a personality-decision basis rather on a pragmatic, and realistic decision basis. So, whether Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is out or incarcerated, it is our principled position that the decision taken must be in the best interest of the Biafran people, and the overall well-being of the Biafran quest for self-determination. 

And, if such decisions are not in the best interest of the above mentioned, FWPI will surely constructively criticize them regardless of the decision-maker. As a media platform and journalists with loyalty to the quest for Biafra self-determination, we reserve this journalistic right.

 

And, if discharging our professional journalistic obligations would somehow warrant sanction or reprimand of any sort on our team, then so be it. 

Those trying to overstress the use of aforementioned catchphrase are knowingly or unknowingly creating unnecessary problems for the IPOB movement and more specifically for the IPOB leader. 

However, every Biafran must bear in mind, that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the IPOB movement and he also leads the leaders of the IPOB movement in the IPOB Directorate Of States and whatever is determined in or by the DOS must be in the interest of the Biafran people and the Biafran struggle. Anything short of this would face criticism not just from FWPI but also from conscientious Biafrans around the world. 

Signed: Family Writers Press International.