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Nnamdi Kanu Moves To Appeal Court Challenging Justice Nyako’s Jurisdiction Ruling
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu on Tuesday headed to the Abuja Division of the Appeal Court over the decision of the Abuja Federal High Court refusing his application challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain his trial.
On June 19, Kanu had filed an application challenging Justice Binta Nyako-led Federal High Court’s decision to entertain his trial.
However, Kanu through his lead counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, filed a notice of appeal before the Abuja Appeal Court over Justice Binta Nyako’s ruling.
In the notice filed before the court, Ejimakor said Justice Nyako erred in law and occasioned grave miscarriage of justice against Kanu when she said: “The main claim in this application deals with the counts of charge the Defendant is facing. These counts of charge that this Court had retained after a considered ruling on the counts of charge dismissing 8 of the original counts. The main issue is that, if the Defendant has a problem with the counts of charge retained, the option open is appeal.”
According to Ejimakor: “Earlier today, I filed a Notice of Appeal with the Court of Appeal in Abuja against the 19th June 2024 ruling of Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako, refusing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s application challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court to subject him to trial.”
Ejimakor said the trial court erred in law when it considered only one out of the seven ‘jurisdictional’ grounds raised in the preliminary objection and the lone ground bordering on the repeal of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act 2013 (TPAA 2013), occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice against the Appellant.
He said: “The learned trial judge erred in law and thus occasioned grave miscarriage of justice against the Appellant when the trial court refused the preliminary objection even after it held that “all the arguments of counsel may be correct but it will require the court to take evidence before it can pronounce on the arguments”.
“The trial court was right to hold that the argument of the counsel to the Appellant is well-founded or may be correct but the Honorable trial court erred and/or otherwise misdirected itself on the law when it held at the same time that the said arguments will require evidence before the trial court can make its pronouncement.
“The learned trial court erred in law when the court ignored the glaring fact that the Respondent failed woefully to contradict or deny the Affidavit evidence of the Appellant and even admitted to some of the depositions of the Appellant.
“The learned trial judge erred in law and occasioned grave miscarriage of justice against the Appellant when the trial court held that the Notice of Preliminary Objection was an abuse of judicial process and consequently struck it out.”
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Protests erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Monday morning over the continued killings of indigenous residents by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militants.
The demonstrations, led by Christian leaders including the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Polycarp Lubo, commenced on Monday morning at the Fawvwei Junction community road, causing a heavy gridlock and stranding commuters.
The latest protest comes amid a surge in violent attacks by gunmen in various communities, with over 100 people killed in Bokkos and Bassa LGAS in the past two weeks.
“We are not happy over the continuous attacks and killings by gunmen in our communities. That’s why we have come out again to protest these happenings,” said Gyang Dalyop, one of the protesters.
Another protester, Hannatu Philip, called on the government to intervene before it spirals out of control.
The protesters brandishing placards with different inscriptions were seen marching towards the Rayfield Government House.
The Presidency has said the former Labour Party, LP, presidential running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is no match for President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare was reacting to Datti’s remark that he (Tinubu) would not run for the presidency in 2027.
The former LP running mate insisted that Tinubu’s time is up, adding that everything is there for the president and the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, to see that they lose in 2027.
Dismissing such remark, Dare likened Datti’s comment to the new year predictions of charlatan ‘prophets’ which never come through.
In a statement he signed, Dare said the likes of Peter Obi and Datti would have been president left for the latter’s theories.
According to Dare, Datti has chosen to venture into an unfamiliar terrain.
The statement reads partly: “Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed’s “illogical logic” was all over the place in his recent interview with a television channel.
“Listening to Yusuf Datti Baba- Ahmed spurn his postulations about the political future of Nigeria and that of the incumbent President is like listening to the new year predictions of charlatan ‘prophets’ which never come through. Yusuf Baba Ahmed and his co-traveller Peter Obi are indeed a “double whammy“ in the Nigerian political space.
“He chose to base his political calculations on President Bola Tinubu not winning a second term given his antecedents and because Nigerians will decide at the polls among other things. He conveniently avoided the substance of performance and capacity.
“Unfortunately, he chose to walk into a lane he was unfamiliar with and chose to confront a politician he is no match for.”
Similarly, the Presidency had also stressed that Tinubu will reveal his plans for a second term at the right time.
It said the APC 2027 presidential campaign billboards had no links to Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
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