On November 3, 2022, IPOB filed a suit at the apex court against the verdict of the Appellate Court which stopped the release of the leader of the Igbo self-determination group.
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The Eagle Online recalls that the Court of Appeal had discharged Kanu over alleged terrorism case against him
The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group.
Justice Inyang Ekwo struck it out following oral application made by Kanu’s counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, to withdraw the suit.
This development was confirmed by Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lawyer of the Leader of the IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, in a statement.
Kanu made the known in a statement issued on Tuesday by his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who said they met on Monday.
The lawyer reacted to the report in a statement he issued on Thursday following the report that Kanu denounced IPOB.
The lawyer of the IPOB leader levelled the allegation in a statement on Wednesday, a day after the DSS spoke on Kanu.
He spoke on Wednesday via his Facebook page while giving an update on his visit to the IPOB leader in detention.
This he said is the reason why they still observe the sit-at-home order issued by IPOB despite the secessionist group announcing its end.
His brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, paid him a visit according to the IPOB leader’s Lead Counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
In a statement, Ejiofor said he had finally been allowed to see Kanu “after weeks of speculations and uncertainties”
Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, turned down the application by Nnamdi’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
Ejiofor said this in a series of tweets shortly after his visit to Kanu in the detention facility of the DSS on Friday
Kanu was rearrested and repatriated back to Nigeria earlier on Tuesday for continuation of his trial for treasonable felony.
A family source who pleaded anonymity told Daily Sun that the attackers stormed the house in 15 Hilux vans, abducted Ejiofor’s elder brother, Joel, personal driver and two others, after shooting the lawyer’s Personal Assistant.
According to the Punch Newspapers, Abang made the declaration on Tuesday in Awka, the Anambra State capital and he said the declaration of the lawyer and other IPOB members wanted, was in connection with the alleged murder of two police officers in Oraifite, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of the state on Monday.
They said that if he insisted on attending the occasion with me, the venue would be sealed and the entire event would be stopped and not allowed to hold.
Chidiebere Onwudiwe, a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja that officials of the Department of State Services allegedly electrocuted him while was in their custody.
Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, revealed the day of the expected live broadcast on Saturday