BREAKING: Court Adjourns Indefinitely as Nnamdi Kanu Confronts Trial Judge

A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), indefinitely.

Justice Binta Nyako adjourned the suit on Monday following Kanu’s insistence that she could not preside over his case since she had recused herself.

Nyako recused herself from the trial on September 24, 2024, after an oral application from the defence. The case file was transferred to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho.

However, Tsoho sent Kanu’s case file back to Justice Nyako for adjudication, insisting that a formal application must be made by the defence before the recusal could be accepted.

Kanu asked that the case be transferred to the South-East where the allegations against him are said to have been committed if no judge in Abuja is willing to take his case.

The IPOB leader’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, briefly explained what transpired in court on Monday in an X post.

“Today’s ‘hearing’ of Onyendu MAZI NNAMDI KANU’s case is concluded. We stood our ground & told the Judge that she no longer possesses jurisdiction over MNK & that we appeared ‘under protest’. Onyendu took the center stage & spoke eloquently. Case adjourned sine die (indefinitely),” he wrote.

In aa video sighted by AnambraDaily, Kanu was seen, arguing that Chief Justice of Nigeria had no right to ordered Justice Nyako to retake the case she had earlier recused herself.

“Poor knowledge of the law is killing Nigeria. This is a federal gazetted law of Nigeria that says here that the Chief Judge of Nigeria cannot tell (Justice) Binta Nyako what to do. Is here. Is your law. Just obey it.

“That is why I do what I do. I agitate for Biafra. It’s my right to agitate for Biafra. But they turned it from reasonable felony now to Terrorism…” Kanu said in the video posted by Channels TV.