The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho has reassigned the case of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to another judge.
This was disclosed by Kanu’s lead Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor via
a statement on Saturday.
Ejimakor disclosed that Kanu is ready to face his trial
because he’s convinced of his innocence.
In a statement signed by Ejimakor, he said: “Yesterday,
before the legal team conducted our routine visitation to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, we
received two separate official letters regarding his case. The letters are
momentous and somewhat pyrrhic.
“One letter was from the Honourable Chief Justice of
Nigeria, responding to a recent letter we had written to her, seeking her
prompt administrative intervention (as the administrative head of Nigerian
judiciary) on the matter of a proper and lawful reassignment of Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu’s case, following the recusal of the Judge that was conducting it.
“The other letter was from the Chief Judge of the Federal
High Court, informing us that the case has been reassigned to another Judge of
the Federal High Court.
“Consequent upon these latest developments, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
instructed the legal team to publicly convey his sincere gratitudes to the
Chief Justice of Nigeria for her sound administrative discretions and the
despatch with which she responded to our request.
“He also expressed his profound appreciations to members of
the general public who publicly expressed their support to our righteous
demands that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case be reassigned to another Judge, as the law
demands.
“To be sure, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has always been ready to take
his trial because he is firmly convinced of his innocence. But the perverse
events of the past six months (from September 2024, when the recusal happened)
posed portent dangers to his constitutional rights, particularly his right to
fair and speedy hearing.
“It was in view of these untoward developments that we were
propelled to resort to taking extraordinary measures to ensure that his case is
properly reassigned and conducted in accordance with the law.
“So, now that the first steps have been taken by the
authorities to do the lawful thing, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his legal team shall
take stock and hanker down to the zealous preparation of his defense.”
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