Breaking: Nnamdi Kanu takes over as his lawyers withdraw from trial

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA

A erstwhile Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, has formally applied to retreat his quality for the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

Agabi, SAN, who hitherto led Kanu’s defence team, announced his determination to propulsion retired from the lawsuit aft the proceeding resumed earlier the Federal High Court successful Abuja connected Thursday.

He disclosed that the IPOB leader, who has elected to support himself, took his lawsuit record from him and the different elder lawyers that were portion of his ineligible team.

Confirming the improvement from the dock, Kanu told the tribunal that henceforth, helium would correspond himself.

He declined an connection from the proceedings judge, Justice James Omotosho, for a lawyer to beryllium provided for him.

In his archetypal submission arsenic his ain lawyer, Kanu challenges the jurisdiction of the tribunal to effort him connected the seven-count terrorism-related complaint the Federal Government preferred against him.

It volition beryllium recalled that Kanu, who has been successful detention since 2021, had, successful a caller question helium personally signed and filed earlier the court, named respective individuals that included serving governors, ministers, ex-governors and information chiefs among the 23 persons helium intends to nutrient arsenic his witnesses.

Describing them arsenic captious and compellable witnesses successful his case, Kanu urged the tribunal to assistance him a 90-day play to alteration him to unfastened and reason his defence.

He argued that expanding the archetypal six-day play the tribunal gave for him to reason his defence has go indispensable successful presumption of the fig and presumption of the witnesses helium intends to nutrient to springiness grounds successful the case.

Among the projected witnesses successful the main database helium submitted earlier the tribunal were the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma; that of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike; the contiguous past Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; arsenic good arsenic a erstwhile Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd).

Others are the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi; the contiguous past Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu; a erstwhile Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd); the contiguous past erstwhile Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar; and the erstwhile Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi.

Kanu, successful the question dated October 21 and marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, arsenic hinted that helium would telephone different persons whose names were not connected the database helium submitted.

He wants the tribunal to contented a subpoena (summons) to compel the attendance of each the projected witnesses whose grounds helium said would found his innocence of the complaint against him.

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