The National Security Council on Friday threw its weight on the position of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, that the Court of Appeal only discharged the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, in its judgment but did not acquit him of the charge for which he was facing trial.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the security meeting, the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, joined by his Interior Ministry counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and the Chief of Defence Staff , General Lucky Irabor, said the council did not discuss the issue of a possible political solution to Kanu’s case which Malami had broached in November 2021.
Meanwhile, the immediate-past Governor of Abia State and senator representing Abia Central, Senator Theodore Orji, has hailed Thursday’s Court of Appeal judgement which discharged the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, of the terrorism charge preferred against him by the Federal Government.
Senator Orji in a statement by his Liaison Officer, Hon. Ifeanyi Umere, said the judgement would help improve Nigeria’s global image as a country with regard for the rule of law. “We implore the Federal Government not to contest the judgement but to seize this opportunity to resolve all the agitations in the South East and other parts of Nigeria due to injustice and marginalization.”
Prince Emmanuel Kanu also said he expected President Buhari to simply remember his promise to Igbo delegation and honour his own words. Kanu’s Special Counsel, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, has however tackled the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over the AGF’s response that new legal grounds would be explored to nail Kanu.
“Further, no new charges can stick against Kanu because, in the present circumstance, the extraordinary rendition is an abiding factor that has created a permanent barrier to his prosecution. The group equally said that the option available to the Attorney General was to obey the court judgement or appeal it within the time frame, adding that Kanu must be set free from the DSS dungeon or be placed under surveillance should Nigeria Government decide to appeal the judgement at the Apex Court.
Should the Nigerian Government decide to head to the Supreme Court in the exercise of its right under the country’s body of laws, then Nnamdi Kanu must, first of all, be set free-with the worst case scenario is to place him in civil liberties-compliant movement surveillance if in the sincere opinion of the Nigerian State, granting him total freedom of movement, expression and association will be injurious to the pendency of the apex appeal and its final determination”.
“It is with every sense of responsibility and patriotism that I urge and indeed appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, to accept the verdict of the Court of Appeal in the interest of peace and national unity.
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