Kanu’s grouse revolved on his insistence that the court could no longer preside over his matter having recused itself from same. All efforts to placate Kanu failed as he refused to back down, repeating over and over again that he had lost confidence in the court.
Kanu’s current travail may have started in 2021 when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari joined forces with the Kenyan government, arrested Kanu and bundled him back to Nigeria to resume his trial on charges bordering on terrorism.
In the heat of his trial, Nnamdi Kanu had fled the country in 2017 setting up shop in the UK from where his withering verbal and epistolary missiles remained a source of great consternation and irritation to the Nigerian government. Kanu’s rearrest in 2021 was somewhat of a victory for the Nigerian government.