JUST IN: Lawyer Ejimakor Offers Recent Replace on Nnamdi Kanu’s Court docket of Enchantment Case
Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to the convicted chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has supplied an replace on the standing and subsequent steps of his shopper’s attraction on the Court docket of Enchantment.
In a press release posted on X on Wednesday, Ejimakor stated that Kanu’s Discover and Grounds of Enchantment have been filed in February 2026, formally initiating the appellate course of.
He defined that the document of attraction, which incorporates the cost sheet, proceedings, reveals, rulings, judgment, and sentence, has already been compiled by the registrar of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, and transmitted to the Court docket of Enchantment.
In response to Ejimakor, the subsequent stage includes submitting briefs of argument. The defence workforce is anticipated to submit Kanu’s appellant’s transient inside 45 days of receiving the document, addressing 22 grounds of attraction and looking for to overturn the conviction.
He added that the Federal Authorities, as respondent, will file its transient inside 30 days of being served, after which the defence could submit a reply transient inside 14 days if essential.
Ejimakor famous that these briefs kind the core of the attraction, and oral arguments through the listening to might be restricted to clarifications; no contemporary proof or witness testimony might be allowed at this stage.
As soon as all briefs are filed, the Court docket of Enchantment will schedule a listening to earlier than a three-member panel of justices, who will hear arguments from either side. Following the listening to, the courtroom is anticipated to order judgment, which may very well be delivered inside weeks or a couple of months, however not exceeding 90 days.
He outlined the doable outcomes of the attraction: the courtroom may enable the attraction and quash the conviction, dismiss the attraction and uphold the judgment, or order a retrial.
Ejimakor urged the general public to deal with the clear, sequential phases of the attraction quite than day by day hypothesis.
He stated, “That is the usual, clear roadmap laid down by Nigerian regulation, and MNK’s attraction can’t be any completely different. The attraction is progressing precisely as the principles require, one procedural step at a time.”