Presidency to legal authorities: Sanction Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer for participating in protest

ABUJA — The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has called connected ineligible regulatory bodies successful Nigeria to authorisation 1 of the lawyers representing the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, for participating successful the ongoing #FreeNnamdiKanu protestation successful Abuja.

Onanuga made the telephone successful a station connected his X (formerly Twitter) grip connected Monday, wherever helium criticised Ejimakor for joining the objection organised by quality rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore.

According to the statesmanlike aide, Ejimakor’s information successful the protestation undermines ineligible ethics, fixed that Kanu’s lawsuit is inactive earlier a competent court.

“I spotted Aloy Ejimakor, 1 of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, among the tiny radical of protesters mobilised successful Abuja by Omoyele Sowore,” Onanuga wrote.

“I wonderment what Mr. Ejimakor was reasoning erstwhile helium decided to articulation this shambolic protest. As a lawyer, helium should beryllium alert of the rule of sub judice, peculiarly successful narration to the ongoing treason lawsuit earlier the court.”

Onanuga noted that the prosecution had already concluded its lawsuit and that it was present the work of Kanu’s ineligible squad to absorption connected presenting a beardown defence alternatively than engaging successful nationalist demonstrations.

“Rather than focusing connected preparing a beardown case, Mr. Ejimakor has resorted to extra-legal tactics, joining a vocation anarchist to power the process. Ejimakor’s enactment questions his adherence to nonrecreational ethics,” helium said.

He urged the applicable ineligible authorities, including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), to analyse Ejimakor’s behaviour and see due sanctions for what helium described arsenic “unethical behaviour.”

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