Kanu, in a statement on Saturday, condemned the attack and described it as “war on Biafra”.
The IPOB leader further explained that the incident happened after Okoroafor had visited a security facility in Abuja where some IPOB members arrested at Obigbo Rivers State during the #EndSARS protest were kept.
Nnamdi Kanu accused Nigerian security agents of attempting to murder the lawyer.
“Following the assassination attempt made in Abuja today on Barrister Chukwuemeka Richard Okoroafor, the IPOB lawyer who has been making frantic efforts to secure freedom for our ladies abducted from Obigbo at the aftermath of the #EndSARS protest and taken to Abuja, I, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, want to put the world on notice that the Nigeria Government has declared war on Biafra.