After Supreme Court Verdict, Nnamdi Kanu Disbands Legal Team

Barely a month after his failed attempt to secure freedom, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has taken the significant step of dismissing his legal team, according to a highly-placed judicial source.

The change of legal representation was formally communicated to the team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a prominent legal luminary in Nigeria. Confirming this development, the source revealed, “It is true that shortly after the supreme court ruling Nnamdi Ejimakor and Nnameka Ejiofor met with our leader, and he asked them to formally write the termination of the legal contract and give it to the lead counsel. They have already done that, and the Senior Advocate of Nigeria has received the letter terminating the contract.”

Replacing the former legal team leader, Nnamdi Kanu has reportedly approached another legal luminary from Cross River State to take up his case. Although discussions have taken place on how to handle his legal matters, it remains uncertain if the former chief legal officer for Nigeria will agree to assume the brief.

The decision to disband the legal team stemmed from Kanu’s dissatisfaction with their perceived inability to quash his case and secure his release from continuous incarceration. His lack of faith in the legal team is accentuated by their failure to present a compelling case for transferring him from the Department of State Services cell to the Kuje Correctional Service, where he would have more freedom to interact with friends and relatives.

In addition to the legal team, Kanu is reportedly unhappy with his medical team, citing their failure to provide a convincing medical report that could facilitate the transfer of his treatment from the DSS hospital and doctors to his chosen private doctors outside Nigeria.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on December 15, 2023, upheld the Federal Government’s appeal challenging the verdict of the Appeal Court, which dismissed the charges against Nnamdi Kanu. The Court of Appeal’s ruling that Kanu could not be retried based on the illegality perpetrated against him by the Federal Government was deemed wrong by the Supreme Court, which also held that the Nigerian Government’s act of rendering Kanu from Kenya, although reckless and unlawful, did not divest any Court from proceeding with the trial.

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