The Nigerian government insists the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was discharged and not acquitted by the Court of Appeal.
The Nigerian government has again indicated that it is not yet ready to release Nnamdi Kanu, over 24 hours after the Court of Appeal in Abuja freed him.
Twenty-four hours after the charges against him were dismissed and his release ordered by the appellate court, Mr Dingyadi said on Friday that the government was still reviewing the case, and would make its position known after weighing all available legal options. It followed an earlier ruling of the trial judge, Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja, in April, dismissing eight of the 15 amended counts filed against him by the federal government.Mr Kanu is championing the secession of the Igbo-dominated Southeastern states along with some states in the South-south as an independentThe charges included treasonable felony first filed against him after he was arrested in 2015.
It held there was no denial by the Nigerian government’s lawyer, David Kaswe, in the appeal as to the submissions of Mike Ozekhome, Mr Kanu’s counsel, that the separatist leader was “extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya.”
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