Drama ensued on the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja on Monday morning as Aloy Ejimakor, the lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, informed choose Binta Nyako to recuse herself from the trial.
Mr Ejimakor stated the request for her to give up the case once more got here from his consumer, who’s the chief of the proscribed Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), a gaggle agitating for the secession of South-east states and components of some neighbouring states as a sovereign Biafra nation.
Nnamdi Kanu, who has been within the custody of the State Safety Service (SSS) since 2021, is standing trial earlier than Mrs Nyako on fees of terrorism and treasonable felony arising from his separatist activists as a pro-Biafra agitator.
He arrived on the courtroom premises in firm with SSS operatives at about 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
Mr Kanu’s trial was earlier stalled after Mrs Nyako recused herself from the case following the IPOB chief’s oral software on 24 September 2024.
The IPOB chief broke right into a dialog between the bar and the bench throughout the courtroom session to inform the choose to withdraw from the case. He stated he not had confidence in her dealing with of his trial.
Nevertheless, John Tsoho, Chief Choose of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, returned the file to Mrs Nyako on the grounds that Nnamdi Kanu’s software should be introduced formally earlier than the courtroom by means of a movement on discover.
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Consequently, in a letter dated 5 December 2024, addressed to the Deputy Chief Registrar; the prosecution led by Adegboyega Awomolo requested the courtroom to repair a date for the graduation of the trial.
Opposing the request for a trial date, the defence counsel, Mr Ejimakor, in a letter dated 9 December 2024, stated the ruling of the choose recusing herself remained legitimate.
Mr Ejimakor additional requested that the case be transferred to a division of the Federal Excessive Courtroom within the Igbo-dominated South-east area of the nation if no choose in Abuja is keen to preside over it.
Nnamdi Kanu at Monday listening to
On the resumed listening to on Monday, the prosecuting counsel led by Mr Awomolo, informed the choose was prepared for the graduation of trial as his witnesses had been prepared.
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Nevertheless, Mr Ejimakor stated his consumer, Nnamdi Kanu, has made a option to not stand trial earlier than Mrs Nyako.
“The defendant remains to be asking that your lordship recuse herself from this matter,” Ejimakor informed the courtroom.
In response, the choose stated “the Chief Choose had not accepted the recusal and had referred the case again” to her for trial.
She requested the defence workforce led by Mr Ejimakor to ship a written software in the event that they nonetheless insist on the recusal.
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