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Nnamdi Kanu: FG Appeals Judgement, Hearing To Start On Monday

Nnamdi Kanu: FG Appeals Judgement, Hearing To Start On Monday

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu has disclosed that the Federal Government has issued a ‘Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay of Execution’ to the Court of Appeal’s judgment of freeing his client.

According to him, the notice that was served late-night yesterday on the case’s lead counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, was due for hearing on Monday, October 24……………………….Continue Reading

 

 

Naija News learnt that IPOB’s counsel explained that the federal government had every right to appeal, it must however obey the Court of Appeal’s judgement to release Kanu immediately with no conditions.

Ejiofor in a statement titled, ‘update on our today’s visit to our indefatigable client-Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the DSS headquarters, Abuja’ said, “our strategies towards a successful upsetting of the efficacy of these processes as it affects Onyendu’s unconditional release were discussed with him, which strategies were all acceptable to him, particularly now that the Motion for Stay of Execution was fixed for hearing on Monday, being the 24th day of October 2022.

“Though the FGN’s right of appeal is a constitutional right, it is our firm contention that the FGN must, first and foremost, obey the order of the Court of Appeal directing for the immediate and unconditional release of Onyendu…………………………………..………….Continue Reading

 

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