of Biafra (IPOB)
, has accused Nigeria’s
president, General Muhammadu Buhari is
influencing the courts to convict him of
treasonable felony.
Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu speaks to his
counsel at the Federal High Court in Abuja,
Nigeria, January 20. Kanu's lawyer says he has
advised his client not to come to court on
Wednesday over fears his life is in danger.
The incarcerated leader of the new-age pro-
Biafra movement, Kanu made this allegation
through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, at a media
briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, May 11, 2016.
Ejiofor said the president’s “pronouncement” on
issues regarding Biafra was prejudicial, and that
they were capable of forcing the hands of the
court to convict his client.
He cited the president’s statements in Katsina,
where he said that nobody could divide the
country, and in his December presidential media
chat, where he said that the IPOB leader should
not be granted bail because he was a flight risk.
The counsel opined that Buhari was
inadvertently compelling the court to do his
bidding using his public pronouncements on his
case.
“Nnamdi Kanu is a political prisoner, and this
was confirmed in the presidential media chat,”
he said.
“The pronouncements of the president is
affecting the decision of the court. We consider
the pronouncements prejudicial.
“The president should not be making
pronouncements that are indirectly influencing
the decision of the judges.”
Ejiofor added that he had filed a fundamental
rights suit against the federal government at the
ECOWAS court on the imprisonment of Kanu.
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