The court, on Tuesday, delivered rulings on the bail request and another application filed by the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu.
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The only option available to the IPOB leader, according to the judge, was for him to lodge an appeal at the Court of Appeal. She said the best the court could do, in the circumstance, was to give an order for accelerated hearing of the matter.Mr Kanu filed the applications at the court following the Supreme Court’s 15 December 2023 judgement ordering him to go back to face his trial, which has been going on intermittently since 2015 when it was instituted.
He had alleged that the SSS personnel usually seized documents of Kanu’s lawyers, stopping his lawyers from taking notes during visitation, and eavesdropping on Kanu’s consultation with lawyers on matters pertaining to his defence, among others. “The medical condition of the defendant speaks for itself and the health challenge persists, despite the treatment offered him by the detaining authority,” Mr Ejimakor told journalists shortly after the ruling.
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