The Department of State Services (DSS) reported that Godwin Emefiele, the previous governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was being defended by IPOB attorney Maxwell Okpara.

DSS referred to Okpara as a “charge-and-bail lawyer” on Tuesday after he filed contempt charges against Yusuf Bichi, its Director-General, regarding Emefiele’s continued detention.

The secret police claimed in a series of tweets that the IPOB/ESN lawyer leading the team of attorneys who filed the charges against Bichi was overzealous and ignorant.

According to DSS: “Charge and bail, overzealous, uninformed IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara mobilises other like-minded lawyers against DGSS. Futile efforts. Well, Nigerians, beware! This is in bad faith. Transferred aggression.

“A Biafran Republic agitator and outlawed IPOB counsel defending the suspended CBN Governor. Is IPOB defending one of theirs?

“What a contradiction. What’s the connection? Is someone telling us something? May Maxwell be properly educated on points of law, please.”

A group of lawyers had filed a contempt charge against Bichi over the DSS’s refusal to release Emefiele despite several court judgements and orders.