A lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who heads the legal team of the
leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu,
said on Saturday that he has spoken with his client after a video clip
of the IPOB leader praying in Jerusalem surfaced on the internet on
Friday.
Ejiofor, in a statement on Saturday, confirmed that Kanu would
address the public in a world press conference to be beamed live on
Sunday to narrate “the shocking tale of how he made it alive”.
This came ahead of the November 14 scheduled for hearing in Kanu’s trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and others who stood bail sureties for the
IPOB leader in April last year, are expected to return to the court
presided by Justice Binta Nyako to show cause why they should not be
made to lose their N100m bail bonds which they entered into to secure
Kanu’s bail, if they are unable to produce the IPOB leader.
Also, a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, whom Ejiofor had
caused to be summoned by the court for insisting that Kanu had escaped
to London, is also expected in court at the next hearing date.
Kanu was being prosecuted by the Federal Government before the
Federal High Court in Abuja before he went missing on September 14, 2017
following a military invasion of his home in Afara-Ukwu in Umuahia,
Abia State.
The military invasion took place during the last year’s ‘Operation
Python Dance II’ staged by the military to quell the agitation for the
cessation of Republic of Biafra from Nigeria.
IPOB, had through a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary,
Emma Powerful, confirmed on Friday that the person seen in the video
was its leader at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, where he joined other
faithful to offer prayers.
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