The ongoing case of the Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been reassigned to a different judge by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho.
ENigeria News reports that the development was communicated via Nnamdu Kanu’s attorney, Aloy Ejimakor, in a statement on Saturday, where he also announced that Kanu is ready to face his trial because he’s convinced of his innocence.
Ejimakor said during a routine visit to Nnamdi Kanu, the legal team received two separate official letters regarding his case. Adding that the letters were momentous and somewhat pyrrhic.
According to him, one letter was from the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria, responding to a recent letter the team had written to her, seeking her prompt administrative intervention on the matter of a proper and lawful reassignment of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case, following the recusal of the Judge that was conducting it.
He said the other letter was from the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, informing the team that the case has been reassigned to another Judge of the Federal High Court.
Ejimakor disclosed that, consequent upon these latest developments, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu instructed the legal team to publicly convey his sincere gratitude’s to the Chief Justice of Nigeria for her sound administrative discretions and the dispatch with which she responded to our request.
Kanu also expressed his profound appreciations to members of the general public who publicly expressed their support for his righteous demands that the case be reassigned to another Judge, as the law demands.
The lawyer said Nnamdi Kanu has always been ready to take his trial because he is firmly convinced of his innocence, adding that, the perverse events of the past six months, from September 2024, when the recusal happened, posed portent dangers to his constitutional rights, particularly his right to fair and speedy hearing.
Ejimakor assured that Nnamdi Kanu and his legal team would take stock and hanker down to the zealous preparation of his defense.
