Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB, has reacted to the Appel Court’s unwillingness to hear his appeal against the designation of the organisation as a terrorist organisation.
Kanu remarked that the proscription’s injustice is confirmed by the Appeal Court’s inability to hear the case.
Due to IPOB’s movement for Biafra, the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari has banned it.
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However, the organisation had filed a legal challenge to its ban.
The Abuja Court of Appeal set October 16 for the appeal hearing of IPOB in March.
Kanu, however, criticised the court for not taking the IPOB’s lawsuit against the ban seriously.
After their normal meeting at the Department of State Services, DSS, the leader of IPOB revealed this through his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.
When Ejimakor investigated the Registry on Friday, they discovered that the case from 2018 with the case number CA/A/214/2018 was still scheduled for hearing.
However, he bemoaned the fact that when they arrived in the court, the matter had been deleted from the Registry without notifying them of the change.
Speaking with OBASANJO NEWS24, Ejimakor stated: “The matter was scheduled for hearing last on March 7 but was postponed that day without a hearing because to “election petitions.” The following day was today, and by the time we checked the Registry on Friday, it was listed as a cause.
“However, when we arrived in Court today, we were shocked to discover that it was no longer on the cause list for today, with the same old excuse of “election petitions.”
“I just left a visitation with Nnamdi Kanu, and he asked me to publicly protest the adjournment of IPOB’s appeal against its proscription since 2018 earlier today on his behalf.
“By declining to hear this appeal, the proscription’s unfairness is indirectly confirmed.
“We are submitting a letter tomorrow morning at first light to strongly request a new date no later than 10 days from tomorrow.”
