A lawyer, Onyedikachi Ifedi, has said the conviction of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader Nnamdi Kanu by Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court is haunting Nigeria’s judiciary.
Ifedi, a member of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium, made the assertion in Umuahia on Friday, pointing to the Nigerian government’s unwillingness to respond to the appeal filed by Kanu to challenge his conviction.
The lawyer insisted on Kanu and his defence team’s argument that the conviction was based on a repealed law.
Stressing that the judgment that convicted the IPOB leader is haunting the Nigerian judiciary, the lawyer warned that its implications threaten the foundation of the country’s legal system.
“The Nigerian judiciary and the Federal Government stand on the precipice of an indelible disgrace. The case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has laid bare a constitutional crisis so profound that it threatens the very foundation of
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