According to Aloy Ejimakor, the ruling simply requires Nnamdi Kanu, the defendant to enter his defense, it’s not a pronouncement of guilt or not guilty
The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has given a clarification following today's no case submission ruling of the Abuja Federal High Court.
He clarified that the ruling is not a guilty pronouncement.
Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the ruling is a call for the IPOB leader to “mount his own defense.”
Justice James Omotosho had dismissed the no case submission made by Kanu in the terrorism charges filed against him by the Federal Government.
The judge, while delivering ruling on Friday, held that the Department of State Services, DSS, established a prima facie case against Kanu, adding that he has questions to answer in the terrorism charge preferred against him.
However, addressing journalists within the court premises after the ruling, Ejimakor said: “Well, the ruling simply requires Nnamdi Kanu, the defendant to enter his defense, it’s not a pronouncement of guilt or not guilty, so that is why it’s called a no-case submission. So the judgment, the ruling, that there is a prima facie evidence, that needs to be explained.
“So in common parlance, it calls on him to come and mount his own defense.
“But there is the other aspect of the ruling that concerned extraordinary rendition, that very one is one that compounded us because the extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu is so open and notorious.”