Nnamdi Kanu: Appeal Court Stands down FG’s Stay of Judgment Motion *Declines request for adjournment Alex Enumah in Abuja The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Monday stood down hearing in the federal government’
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division on Monday stood down hearing in the federal government’s application seeking a stay of the execution of the court’s judgment discharging leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu from alleged terrorism charge.
In a short ruling, however, the three man panel of the appellate court, presided by Justice Haruna Tsalmani, declined to grant the request for adjournment on grounds that the matter before the court is one that requires accelerated hearing, adding that the issue raised by Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN is not such that requires adjournment to respond to.
FG had on extraditing Kanu to Nigeria from Kenya last year filed a 15 count charge bordering on terrorism against him. The decision of Justice Nyako prompted kanu’s appeal to the appellate court, which agreed that no court in Nigeria has jurisdiction to entertain the alleged terrorism charge without first evaluating the circumstances Kanu was brought into the country to continue his alleged terrorism trial.