[10][11] As leader of the AGovC, Ayaba and Chairman Benedict Kuah oversaw the creation of the Ambazonia Defence Forces, which carried out its first guerilla action on September 9, 2017.

[14] During the 2019 Ambazonian leadership crisis, Ayaba supported Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe against Samuel Ikome Sako "out of principle".

[15] In July 2019, Ayaba claimed that Cameroon had practically lost the war and that separatist forces controlled 80 percent of the Anglophone regions.

[18] In March 2022, Ayaba Lucas Cho presented himself, on his Twitter page, as the sponsor of a terrorist attack on Ekondo Titi, which caused the death of seven people, including the sub-prefect and the mayor of this city, in the Southwest region of Cameroon.

[21] In January 2025, the Organization of Emerging African States (OEAS) called for the release of Ayaba and Simon Ekpa, a Biafran political activist.