The chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday insisted that Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal Excessive Courtroom is not going to deal with his case.
Kanu ordered his attorneys to make sure that Justice Nyako stays off his case following her recusal.
On September 24, 2024, Kanu had requested Justice Nyako to ‘fingers off’ his trial on grounds of insecurity.
Following the decision, the trial choose stepped down from Kanu’s case and transferred his case file to the Chief Choose of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, John Tsoho.
Nonetheless, throughout his routine assembly along with his authorized workforce led by lead counsel Aloy Ejimakor on the Division of State Providers, DSS, facility in Abuja, Kanu mentioned Justice Nyako can be disobeying her personal order by restarting the case.
This was contained in an announcement issued by Ejimakor on Wednesday.
Based on the assertion, Kanu’s case needs to be transferred to the Southeast if no choose in Abuja is prepared to take up his trial.
Ejimakor mentioned: “The routine visitation to Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu continues unabated, because the authorized workforce simply concluded an important visitation immediately.
“The central problem arising at immediately’s visitation is the upcoming courtroom date for the continuation of MNK’s case.
“As a consequence of its constitutional implications, Onyendu instructed the authorized workforce to take sure immediate steps to make sure that his case will not be dealt with by the identical Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako who had withdrawn from the case by advantage of the order of recusal entered on twenty fourth September 2024.
“The purpose was harassed that ought to the case nonetheless lie with Justice Murtala-Nyako, it could imply that the identical courtroom is disobeying an order that it made.
“We’re due to this fact wanting ahead to going to courtroom so long as one other Choose of the Federal Excessive Courtroom is assigned to the case.
“If no different choose in Abuja is prepared to deal with the case, the Chief Choose is free to switch the case to Umuahia, Awka, Enugu, Asaba, Port Harcourt or every other Federal Excessive Courtroom throughout the former Japanese Nigeria the place the offenses had been alleged to have occurred or allegedly had impression.”
