NNAMDI KANU APPEALS COURT JURISDICTION OBJECTION RULING
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Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has filed an appeal against Justice Binta Nyako’s June 19 decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja, citing his disagreement with the court’s jurisdiction to try him.
Kanu filed the notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja via Alloy Ejimakor, his principal attorney. Ejimakor revealed this in a statement.
A portion of the statement says, “Earlier today, I filed a Notice of Appeal with the Court of Appeal in Abuja against Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako’s order from June 19, 2024, rejecting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s plea contesting the Federal High Court’s authority to try him.
“The grounds of the objection are seven and mostly predicated on provisions of the Constitution, the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022 and other pertinent statutes.”
The sole respondent is the Federal Government of Nigeria, which would be contacted by Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, her attorney.
The appeal notice went on to say, “Take notice that the appellant, dissatisfied with the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division coram: B.F.M. Nyako, J. delivered on the 19th of June, 2024, more specifically set out in Paragraph 2, doth hereby appeal to the Court of Appeal, Abuja, upon the grounds set out in Paragraph 3 below, and will at the hearing of the appeal seek the reliefs set out in Paragraph 4 of this Notice of Appeal.”
“Ground one: Error in law: The Learned Trial Judge erred in law and occasioned grave miscarriage of justice against the Appellant when the trial Court held that “The main claim in this application deals with the counts of charge the Defendant is facing. These counts of charge that this Court had retained after a considered ruling on the counts of charge dismissing 8 of the original counts. The main issue is that, if the Defendant has a problem with the counts of charge retained, the option open is appeal.”
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