‘Ensure My Case Is Transferred To Southeast If No Other Abuja FHC Judge Apart From Justice Nyako Wants To Priside Over It’
Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has requested that his case to be transferred to South-East if no judge at the Federal High Court in Abuja is willing to preside over it apart from Justice Binta Nyako.
This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by his lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, following a routine meeting with his legal team at the Department of State Services facility in Abuja.
The IPOB leader ordered his lawyers to ensure that Justice Nyako stays off his case following her recusal.
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Recall that Kanu had asked the trial Judge to ‘hands off’ his trial on grounds of lack of confidence.
Following the call, Justice Nyako stepped down from Kanu’s case and transferred the case file to Chief Justice of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho.
In his statement, Ejimakor disclosed that the IPOB leader had instructed his legal team to prevent Justice Nyako from presiding over his trial.
He said: “The routine visitation to Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu continues unabated, as the legal team just concluded a crucial visitation today.
“The central issue arising at today’s visitation is the upcoming court date for the continuation of MNK’s case.
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“Due to its constitutional implications, Onyendu instructed the legal team to take certain prompt steps to ensure that his case is not handled by the same Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako, who had withdrawn from the case by virtue of the order of recusal entered on 24th September 2024.
“The point was stressed that should the case still lie with Justice Murtala-Nyako, it would mean that the same court is disobeying an order that it made.
“If no other judge in Abuja is willing to handle the case, the Chief Judge is free to transfer the case to Umuahia, Awka, Enugu, Asaba, Port Harcourt, or any other Federal High Court within the former Eastern Nigeria, where the alleged offenses were said to have occurred or had their impact.”
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