Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja
Federal High Court has threatened to withdraw from the ongoing trial of Nnamdi
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Speaking during today’s trial,
the trial judge predicated her threat on what she described as attempts by the
defense to frustrate her.
Justice Nyako’s warning came,
following series of arguments between herself and counsels to the IPOB leader.
The argument ensued when Ejiofor
was speaking on a motion he planned to bring before the court, but whose
content had not been listed by the judge.
The judge, while reacting to an
application by Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said she had been pushed to the
brink by the defendant’s counsel and would recuse herself.
“If you don’t want me to continue
in this matter, I will recuse myself.
“I told you that the matter is
not yet before me,” said Nyako while stressing that the defendants were making
the matter difficult.
That is the tactics they want to employ to frustrate you out of the case so that it will be assigned to another lawyer and the adjournment continues.
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