A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja is currently hearing the bail application and preliminary objection to the trial commencement filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Upon resumed hearing of the matter, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), who appeared for the Federal Government, told the presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, that the case was coming up for hearing after the decision of the Supreme Court on December 15, 2023.

Awomolo said the apex court affirmed Nyako’s decision of April 8, 2022, by affirming the preservation of counts one, two, three, four, five, eight, and 15 of the charge which Kanu pleaded not guilty of.

The lawyer added that the Supreme Court ordered the continuation of the hearing on the remaining seven counts out of the earlier 15 counts.

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“So we are ready to proceed with the hearing of this matter and it is in the defendant’s interest and everybody’s interest in this country to see to the end of the hearing,” he said.

Kanu’s counsel, Alloy Ejimakor, however, told the court that he has two motions, an application for bail and a preliminary objection.

He said though he agreed that the Supreme Court directed the continuation of the trial, they were not ready to continue the proceeding.

Ejimakor, therefore, urged the court to take the bail application and the preliminary objection the prosecution did not object.

Hearing on the bail application and the preliminary objection is ongoing as of press time.

The Star