The Indigenous People of Biafra has claimed that the Federal Government’s cross-appeal in the case involving its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has weakened the legal basis of his conviction and raised fundamental questions about the jurisdiction of the trial court.
The group made the remarks in a statement released on Sunday by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful.
Kanu was rearrested in Kenya in June 2021 and extradited to Nigeria to face trial on a multi-count terrorism charge. On November 20, 2025, Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted him on terrorism-related counts, including inciting violence and managing a proscribed organisation. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequently remanded at the Sokoto Correctional Centre.
IPOB alleged that the Federal Government, through its cross-appeal, effectively acknowledged that the trial court lacked jurisdiction in aspects of the sentencing process, a development it said undermined the validity of the conviction.
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