Kanu to appear before justice Omotosho as hearing commences 24 March

By Ezurike Ugochukwu 

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) will appear before a new judge for fresh commencement of his case on March 21, 2025.

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja has been assigned to preside over the case which is coming entirely as new case.

Information made available to Nation Update, Aloy Ejimakor, lead counsel to Kanu said the legal team is ever ready for the matter despite they have not been served the charges he is to stand trial on 24 before Justice Omotosho.

Kanu has been facing charges over his pursuit for the actualization of Biafra.

In September 2024, Kanu had challenged Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja to recuse herself from his trial.

Given, Justice Nyako recused herself based on that call but the Chief Judge of the Abuja Federal High Court rejected her decision.

In December, Justice Nyako adjourned Kanu’s case indefinitely.

Against this backdrop, Kanu vowed never to appear in court until an impartial judge is appointed to preside over his case.

Ejimakor said: “It’s now official that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shall appear before a new Judge on 21st March 2025. It’s a milestone; and we are primed & ready.

“He will appear before Justice James Omotosho of Federal High Court in court 7.

“The case will start new like it has never held before. Everything that was done from 2015 when he was arrested to the last time that he appeared before Justice Binta Nyako are gone including the appeals that are pending, they are gone out of the window.

“He would be re-arraigned on charges that we have not seen, we can mention that we received a hearing notice but no charges have been sent to us.

“We really don’t know the charges we are facing on March 24. The government has a trick they always do, they will serve you a day before the hearing so that you don’t have time to study the charges.

“Sometimes they serve you when you are in court but the charges would have been in the court registry and we can’t start asking the court to give us copy,” Ejimakor revealed.