They point to the campaign by militant secessionist Nnamdi Kanu who pays Washington DC lobbyists Mercury Public Affairs LLC an $85 000 monthly retainer to publish opinion pieces accusing Buhari's government of genocide against Christians and calls for US Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against 'illicit actors' in Nigeria...

For these services IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu who says he is in exile in Israel after Nigeria issued an arrest warrant for him is paying Mercury a retainer of US$85 000 a month according to filings from last October (AC Vol 59 No 21 The flight into Israel)...

Aside from Biafran secessionist Nnamdi Kanu and World Trade Organisation chief contender Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Mercury's main interests on the continent are in Libya where it has a $2 million per year contract with the UN-recognised Government of National Accord led by Faiez el Serraj in Tripoli (See Pointer)...

Some security experts feel that Delta militants could team up with the armed partisans of 'Ambazonia' in Cameroon as well as followers of the fugitive Igbo separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu (AC Vol 58 No 1 Partisan politics runs riot)...

Indeed some northern groups presented Arewa Youth's call for the Igbo people to leave the north as a reaction to Nnamdi Kanu's commercial shut downs in the south-east which hit all businesses including northern-owned ones...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu remains in detention and protests in favour of Biafra continue...