The consultant told The Punch that the convicted IPOB leader has refused to employ lawyers to file his appeal close to three weeks after he was convicted.
The magazine reports that kanu was on November 20, 2025 convicted for terrorism charges, by Justice James Omotosho of a federal high court in Abuja, who sentence him to life imprisonment.
Kanu is expected to file an appeal to the Court of Appeal within three months or 90 days of the judgment, according to legal sources who cited various extant Constitutional provisions relating to the matter.
But speaking to the newspaper, Ejimakor said the IPOB leader may have decided to represents himself in the Appellate court, saying in case he does, it will not be the first time such has happened in the country .
According to Ejimakor, Obafemi Awolowo, the Premier of the defunct Western Region had refused to hire a lawyer to represent him during the treason trial against him by the then federal government of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, saying Kanu may have come to the conclusion that no lawyers can sufficiently represents him in court, adding that "many great men are like that."
The consultant said: "MNK has not filed his appeal yet because he has refused to hire lawyers. You know he disengaged us as his lawyers, so we now act in the capacity of a consultant. I am a consultant to him,
"I don't know why he does not want a lawyer, but I believe it is because he is a great man. Many great men are like that. They believe you can't present their case like they can themselves.
"Even Awolowo refused to hire lawyers in his time. MNK wants to represent himself, and there are about four or five processes he has to follow to file the appeal before the Appellate Court."
Recall that ahead his conviction last month, the IPOB leader had sacked all his lawyers led by Kanu Agabi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, deciding to represents himself instead.
Not a few however insisted that the decision to jilt his lawyers proved detrimental to the case, which started not long after he was arrested in Kenya in 2021 through what insiders believed was a joint operation between Nairobi and Abuja.
In his earlier reaction to the Abuja hich court judgmen,t of the Ejimakor had told journalists that the defence team would appeal the judgment which he said was not grounded in "law and logic."
"We are heading to appeal," he said.
Adding that, "The verdict & the sentence today will not stand. MAZI NNAMDI KANU is not a terrorist. NDIGBO are not terrorists. We all know who the real terrorists are and luckily, the Americans know them too.
'How can you convict a man for making mere broadcasts from a location that was never named and you never tied the broadcasts to any single incidence of violence,? he asked.