The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, of convicting and sentencing its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, without substantial evidence.
The group alleged that the decision was taken to satisfy
political interests within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a press statement issued on Thursday by Emma Powerful,
its media and publicity secretary, IPOB alleged that the judgment was
politically motivated, describing it as a miscarriage of justice.
“Justice Omotosho convicted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu without proof,
without allocutus, and exiled him to Sokoto — fully aware that such a transfer
would make access to lawyers, funding of appeal, and effective defence
financially prohibitive and practically near impossible,” the statement reads.
“This was not justice. It was vendetta dressed in robes.”
IPOB further alleged that the judge acted in the interest of
political actors within the APC, adding that insecurity had since spread to
regions previously considered safe.
“While Justice Omotosho busied himself doing the bidding of
his APC political masters by jailing an innocent man, the very forces he sought
to appease have now carried terror into Yorubaland itself,” the group added.
“Today, communities are under sustained attack by Fulani
terrorists — villages raided, lives lost, ancestral lands violated. The irony
is brutal and undeniable: while Omotosho persecuted a man who warned against
injustice, injustice has come knocking at his own doorstep.”
IPOB said Kanu had repeatedly warned that injustice would
not be limited to any ethnic group, religion or political alliance.
“He warned that those who sacrificed truth for ambition
would reap the whirlwind. Those warnings are no longer prophecy — they are
unfolding reality,” the statement reads.
The group also challenged President Bola Tinubu to justify
Kanu’s continued detention amid worsening insecurity across the country.
IPOB warned that advisers urging the Tinubu administration
to sustain what it described as Kanu’s “unlawful detention” were worsening
national instability.
“Those advising this administration to continue the unlawful
detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu are not defending Nigeria — they are accelerating
its collapse. They are ensuring that injustice travels, mutates, and ultimately
consumes everyone,” the group said.
IPOB said “Nigeria will know no peace until justice is
restored. The immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a concession — it is
a necessity”.
The group warned that history would judge those responsible
for Kanu’s imprisonment, noting that “history is watching” and that “events are
testifying”.
Last November, Kanu was convicted on terrorism-related
charges and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The court imposed life sentences on counts 1, 4, 5 and 6 of
the seven-count charge. He was also sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment on
count 3 and five years on count 7.
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