The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has appealed the ruling of the Abuja Federal High Court before the Appeal Court.
Kanu's legal team led by its Lead Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, expressed dissatisfaction with the ruling of Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court of March 19, 2024. The team informed the Appeal Court that the lower court erred when it denied Kanu's constitutional rights to fair trial.
'Denial of the Appellant’s right to adequate facilities to prepare defence as enshrined in Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 is a jurisdictional issues in the absence of which the trial Court cannot assume or proceed with the jurisdiction over the case unless and until such facilities are accorded to the Appellant.
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