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BREAKING: Ex-governor Storms Court For Nnamdi Kanu
Former governor has arrived court for Nnamdi Kanu.
Onyxnewsng gathered that for the third time, former governor of Anambra state governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is at the Federal High Court in Abuja in respect of the case of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, had last month scheduled November 10, 2021, to hear an application filed by Kanu challenging the competence of the treasonable felony charges filed against him by the Federal Government.
He also asked the judge, Binta Nyako, to dismiss the newly-amended charges of seven counts.
Kanu was charged with terrorism, treason and perpetuation of falsehoods against President Muhammadu Buhari, mainly through broadcasts on the controversial Radio Biafra outlet and also through social media. He had pleaded not guilty during his last trial on October 21, 2021.
Tthe President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Professor Obiozor, had appointed Ezeife to lead the Ohanaeze delegation to the trial of Kanu.
Meanwhile, Onyxnewsng reports that
that Journalists who arrived the federal high court on Wednesday November 10, 2021, date of an adjourned hearing on the trial of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, have been shut out by Department of State Services (DSS).
One of the DSS operatives told Journalists, “We are working on instruction. We can’t let you people in.”
Some lawyers, former governor of Anambra, Chukwuemeka Ezeife and Igbo monarch that arrived the court around 7am, were also turned back.
The embattled IPOB leader had file an application challenging the federal government over the treasonable felony charges against him.
Kanu, who was re-arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, is facing a seven-count amended treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him.
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