Kanu Absent As Court Adjourns Trial Indefinitely

A team of government prosecutors led by the Director of Public Prosecution, Mr. M.B. Abubakar, on Monday alleged that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, was not available before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his planned re-arraignment.

The government lawyer told the court, “My lord, I understand that the defendant declined to come to court today.

“As of last week, the defendant was intimated of this sitting and he did not object. However, when I called the office this morning, I was informed that the defendant woke up and declined to come to court.

“All entreaties and pleas were made but he refused to come to court”.

Kanu’s legal team, on the other hand, said the allegation was strange as Kanu had never hidden his intention to always be in court.

“My lord, this is totally strange to me because this is a person that has never hidden his intention to always be in court. In fact, even in processes we filed at both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, the defendant said he would want to be present in court for hearing of all the matters,” Kanu’s legal team head, Mike Ozekhome, SAN, stated.

The court led by Justice Binta Nyako, however, adjourned the matter indefinitely.