Justice Omotosho’s conviction of Nnamdi Kanu haunting Nigeria’s judiciary – Lawyer

A lawyer, Onyedikachi Ifedi, has said the condemnation of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, person Nnamdi Kanu by Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court is haunting Nigeria’s judiciary.

Ifedi, a subordinate of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Legal Consortium, made the assertion successful Umuahia connected Friday, pointing to the Nigerian government’s unwillingness to respond to the entreaty filed by Kanu to situation his conviction.

The lawyer insisted connected Kanu and his defence team’s statement that the condemnation was based connected a repealed law.

Stressing that the judgement that convicted the IPOB person is haunting the Nigerian judiciary, the lawyer warned that its implications endanger the instauration of the country’s ineligible system.

“The Nigerian judiciary and the Federal Government basal connected the precipice of an indelible disgrace. The lawsuit of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has laid bare a law situation truthful profound that it threatens the precise instauration of the Nigerian ineligible system.

“We are not speaking of technicalities. We are speaking of simple law—the benignant taught successful the archetypal twelvemonth of immoderate instrumentality faculty. And yet, the judiciary has failed the astir basal test: identifying a valid law,” Ifedi said.

He insisted that a ‘savings clause’, which helium said the justice relied connected to convict Kanu, is not a substitute for an extant written and subsisting law.

Ifedi further a...