Lawyer explains why Nnamdi Kanu's conviction is 'dead on arrival' at Court of Appeal

Amid delay in the hearing of the appeal filed by IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, to challenge his conviction, a lawyer has declared that the judgment delivered by Justice James Omotosho is already dead on arrival at the appellate court. The lawyer, Christopher Chidera, a member of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Global Defence Consortium, alleged that a review of the judgment shows that the trial judge committed a fundamental perversion of basic constitutional justice in convicting the agitator. Chidera further alleged that the judge "abandoned the official charge sheet, fabricated a brand-new theory of criminal liability after the defence had closed, imported an uncharged statutory offence (Section 3 of ...