The legal team representing the convicted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has threatened legal action against a television guest, Chigozie Nnabugwu, and News Central Television over what it described as a call for the IPOB leader’s extrajudicial killing.
In a press statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, the legal team condemned remarks allegedly made by Nnabugwu during a News Central TV programme, in which he reportedly urged the Federal Government to kill Kanu “for normalcy to return to the Southeast.”
According to the statement, the video containing the remarks was published on the verified X handle of News Central Television on July 19 and subsequently went viral.
The lawyers described the statement as “reckless, irresponsible and unlawful,” arguing that it amounted to a threat to Kanu’s life and had the potential to incite violence and disrupt
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