He noted that his position follows his travels across the South-East during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Legal consultant for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, has said that growing dissatisfaction across the South-East over the conviction of Kanu could significantly influence voting patterns in the 2027 general elections if not urgently addressed.
Ejimakor made the assertion in a statement on Sunday. He noted that his position follows his travels across the South-East during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
According to him, residents of the region expressed deep unhappiness over Kanu’s conviction, warning that the issue remains a major political concern among the Igbo populace.
“I travelled around entire Southeast during this Xmas/New Year period & noticed that Ndigbo are very unhappy about the conviction of MAZI NNAMDI KANU & that if it’s not rectified urgently, they will surely make their feelings known in the 2027 elections. Even Google confirms it,” Ejimakor said.
In December 2025, Ejimakor raised concerns that transferring Kanu to a correctional facility in Sokoto, hundreds of kilometres from Abuja, posed a serious threat to his right and ability to file and pursue an appeal in his case.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Morning Brief programme, Ejimakor warned that Kanu’s constitutional rights under Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria were at risk.
"Right now, what everybody should be concerned about is the post-judgment regime. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu still retains his constitutional right to a fair hearing under Section 36 of the Constitution,” he said.
Ejimakor, who served as Kanu’s Special Counsel until the IPOB leader opted to retain him only as a legal consultant, stressed that the appeal process requires immediate and detailed actions that are impossible to execute without close access to the relevant courts and legal support.
“That constitutional right is going to be expressed before the Court of Appeal, or perhaps there could be post-judgment maneuvers that could be made before the High Court," he said.
"But for now, it is well known to the whole world and to the High Court, and to everybody else who is a stakeholder in this case that Nnamdi Kanu has no legal counsel. As I speak, he still represents himself.”
Ejimakor said the legal community and observers were stunned to learn that Kanu was moved from Abuja to a prison in Sokoto shortly after his sentencing.
“After the sentencing, I was surprised, and I think everybody else who was monitoring this case was surprised that Nnamdi Kanu was plucked from Abuja and taken all the way to Sokoto, which is in the most northern part of Nigeria,” he said.
Kanu was convicted on seven terrorism-related counts on Thursday, November 20, 2025, by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja after years of trial disruptions, detention, and legal disputes between his defence team and the Nigerian authorities.