Legal Team prepares for fireworks as Supreme Court hears appeal on Nnamdi Kanu Oct 5

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has fixed Thursday October 5, 2023, for hearing of all appeals before the court on Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, brought before the court by the federal government. The legal team of Kanu declared readiness for the judicial fireworks.

The appeals are related that earlier judgement of the Court of Appeal in which the court ordered the federal government to immediately release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.

Nnamdi Kanu battling for freedom

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on 13th of October 2022, delivered a Judgment in favour of Kanu in an appeal filed by Mike Ozekhome, SAN, on behalf of Nnamdi Kanu, challenging part of the Federal High Court ruling, which had retained 7 counts out of the original 15 counts against Nnamdi Kanu, after striking out eight out of the 15 count charge.

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The Justices of the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal filed by the Lead Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, Mike Ozekhome SAN, and directed the Federal Government to immediately release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.

The Appeal Court, in the judgement, also prohibited the Federal Government from further detaining Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, or prosecuting him on any indictment or charge before any court in the country.

Meanwhile, lead counsel Nnamdi Kanu, Prof. Mike Ozekhome SAN, leading Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor Esq., and others, has declared that on the 5th day of October, 2023, the legal team “will be exchanging the legal fireworks on behalf of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in urging the Supreme Court to dismiss in its entirety the frivolous appeal filed by the Federal Government of Nigeria against this landmark judgement of the Court of Appeal; and to further set aside the ruling of the Court of Appeal staying the execution of its earlier judgment.”

He maintained: “We are very firm, and committed to our solemn belief that the wheels of justice, though grinds slowly, but grinds exceedingly fine and towards the attainment of justice at the end of the day.
“Justice shall prevail,by the grace of God. And the hour is here,”.