Nnamdi kanu arraigned, tried, convicted under different laws – Lawyer

Amid the contention surrounding the entreaty filed by person of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to situation his conviction, a lawyer has alleged that owed process was not followed successful the agitator’s trial.

The Court of Appeal is yet database Kanu’s entreaty for hearing, starring to threats by IPOB to boycott the 2027 predetermination successful the South-East.

Speaking connected the proceedings connected Wednesday, a lawyer and subordinate of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Defence Consortium, Onyedikachi Ifedi, said Kanu was arraigned, tried and convicted nether antithetic laws without the prosecution amending the charge.

“Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was forced to plead to a non-existent law, grounds was adduced nether that dormant framework, and a condemnation was entered successful the judgement of 20 November 2025 nether a wholly unpleaded, repealed statute — each aft Justice James Omotosho explicitly refused the defendant’s petition for a ceremonial amendment nether the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015.

“When the instrumentality pleaded, the instrumentality tried, and the instrumentality convicted nether are 3 wholly antithetic things, it is not a method irregularity—it is simply a full illness of owed process,” Ifedi said, citing Okeke v. State (2003) 15 NWLR (Pt. 843) 243.

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