Kanu’s Family demands appeal hearing, questions basis for conviction

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA — THE Okwu-Kanu Family has called for the hearing of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB), Mazie Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal, while questioning the legal basis of his conviction and sentence by the Federal High Court.
Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the IPOB’s younger brother who spoke on Monday on behalf of the Okwu-Kanu Family called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to examine the conduct of Justice James Omotosho in relation to the trial.
According to the family, Justice Omotosho said in open court on November 4, 2025, that “no written law, no conviction”, before delivering Kanu’s conviction on November 20, 2025.
The family argued that the con...