Lawyer questions legality of Kanu’s conviction, insists process flawed

A member of the Global Legal Consortium for Nnamdi Kanu, Christopher Chidera, has questioned the legality of the conviction and life imprisonment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, arguing that the conviction was built on a repealed penal law and a series of errors by three courts .
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Thursday on his legal brief concerning the case, he argued that the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Federal High Court each made separate legal errors that ultimately led to Kanu’s conviction.
According to him, Kanu was discharged and the charges against him quashed by the Court of Appeal on October 13, 2022, and every subsequent ste...