Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has claimed the IPOB leader was abducted by operatives of the Nigerian army on September 14.

He made this known in a statement released on Tuesday while reacting to insinuations that Kanu went into hiding.

Ejiofor said the stories making the rounds that the IPOB leader has fled outside Nigeria were planted to divert attention from the raid on Kanu’s house.

He said: ”I made last contact with my client few minutes into the bloody onslaught in his home on the 14th day of September 2017. Till date, I have not established further communication with him.

”The soldiers must have made possible contact with him on this 14th day of September 2017, when they invaded his house on a bloody raid, and by virtue of which position, they should tell the world if he was caught by fire of bullets in the heat of the bloody onslaught or he was arrested alive.

”In all probability, my client may have been killed by the invading soldiers who are now seeking ways to fool the world into believing that he has left the country.

”My request is that the military should produce my client wherever they kept him and stop diverting attention of the public.”