BREAKING: Nnamdi Kanu Recordsdata Enchantment to Cease Justice Omotosho’s Judgment in His Ongoing Trial
The detained chief of the Indigenous Individuals of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a contemporary movement earlier than the Court docket of Enchantment in Abuja to halt the upcoming judgment in his ongoing trial.
Kanu, who has been within the custody of the Division of State Providers (DSS) since his re-arrest, is asking the appellate courtroom to cease Justice James Omotosho of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja, from delivering judgment on November 20, 2025.
Within the movement filed on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the IPOB chief personally prayed the courtroom for “An Order staying the proceedings of the trial courtroom in Case No. FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015: Federal Republic of Nigeria VS. Nnamdi Kanu at the moment pending earlier than Justice James Okay. Omotosho pending the, listening to and dedication of the attraction pending in opposition to its selections within the case, notably on:
“Its choice on the No Case Submission; its refusal to find out its jurisdiction and the validity of the counts beneath which the Appellant is being tried; its foreclosures of the Appellant’s proper to defend the case by fielding witnesses.”
In keeping with his lawyer, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, who confirmed the event, Kanu’s utility was filed in individual on the Court docket of Enchantment registry.
He stated the movement seeks to make sure that the decrease courtroom doesn’t proceed with judgment till key jurisdictional points are settled.
Kanu argued that regardless of elevating severe constitutional questions earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket, the trial decide declined to find out them.
He additionally claimed that the courtroom “refused to guage the proof of the prosecution witnesses vis-à-vis the cross-examination questions to find out whether or not the proof was discredited beneath cross examination.”
He additional famous that though he had already filed an inventory of witnesses to defend himself, the trial courtroom refused to entertain the defence till the day of judgment.
Kanu warned that if the request isn’t granted, he may be “unlawfully convicted with out being afforded the chance of realizing the validity of the counts, the jurisdiction of the trial courtroom and providing defence on the benefit.”
He added that granting the movement wouldn’t hurt the prosecution, declaring that the case has been dragging since 2015 and deserves truthful remedy.