Nnamdi Kanu: Court acted like tribunal determined to convict at all costs – Lawyer

Amid the contention implicit the hold successful listing the entreaty filed by Nnamdi Kanu to situation his conviction, a lawyer,

Onyedikachi Ifedi, has said the proceedings tribunal acted similar a tribunal that was bent connected convicting the IPOB person astatine each costs.

Kanu’s household and his lawyers person accused the Nigerian authorities of moving from the courtroom aft it emerged that the prosecution has besides refused to record a effect to the appeal.

The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened a boycott of the 2027 predetermination successful the South-East and different ‘Biafra territories’ if the entreaty is not listed for hearing.

Reacting to the unfolding developments successful a connection on Saturday, Ifedi said, “The grounds of this proceedings does not work similar a tribunal seeking information oregon lawfulness. It reads similar a tribunal operating nether a predetermined directive, wherever the statute publication was treated arsenic an inconvenient obstacle to beryllium bypassed.”

The lawyer said the tribunal presided by Justice James Omotosho abandoned the constitution by allegedly refusing to “show the law”, arsenic requested by Kanu during the trial.

“The commentators who mocked Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s demand—“My Lord, amusement maine the law”—thought they were ridiculing a pro se defendant. In truth, they were ch...