Lawyer To Pro-Biafra Group Leader, Nnamdi Kanu, Reacts To Buratai’s 2019 Spiritual Efforts Needed To Defeat Boko Haram Statement

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has reacted to a 2019 statement by Tukur Buratai, the chief of army staff, that terrorism and terrorist groups could not be eliminated alone by the military unless religious bodies and organisations in the country come to the “forefront of this spiritual battle.”

Ejiofor through his known Twitter handle on Monday posited that "Nigeria is finished".

This newspaper understands that IPOB is agitating for the secession of Eastern Nigeria.

Meanwhile, according to Buratai last Friday, spiritual warfare helped prevent deaths during military intervention at the Lekki toll plaza, Lagos state, on October 20.

Speaking at the decoration of 39 newly promoted major-generals, Buratai said a spiritual warfare seminar held by the army helped in preventing deaths at the protest ground — although there are still controversies on the casualty figure.

The army chief said most of the newly decorated generals are also graduates of spiritual warfare seminar.

“I am glad that we held the Spiritual Warfare Seminar on Wednesday and most of the decorated generals today are graduates of the seminar,” he said.

“I must say that the spiritual warfare seminar we had last time helped us during the last #EndSARS protest to the extent that there was no single corpse, but some persons were seeing double at Lekki toll gate in Lagos state."

The first spiritual warfare seminar, organised by the Chaplain and Islamic directorates of the Nigerian Army, was first held in 2019.

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The programme is aimed at sensitising and mobilising religious and spiritual leaders to enlighten and educate their followers on the true and correct tenets of Islamic and Christian religions so as not to be brainwashed by the “devilish and wicked” ideology of Boko Haram terrorist group.