The Supreme Court had on Thursday, April 27 given the go-ahead for the request by the Federal Government to file nine additional grounds in its appeal against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The ruling had come after an application was moved by counsel for the Federal Government by Tijani Gadzali, SAN who had equally been seeking an adjournment of the case to respond to Kanu’s request to be moved from the detention facility of the Department of State Services to the Kuje Correctional Centre.
A five-man panel headed by Justice John Okoro of the Supreme Court had approved the Federal Government’s appeal and had granted leave to the FG to add the extra nine grounds as part of its amended notice of appeal which was dated October 28, 2022.
Nnamdi Kanu’s counsel, Mike Ozekhome had meanwhile, informed the court about a few motions filed by his client, Kanu, including one in which he sought to be relocated to Kuje prison from the facility of the Department of State Services due to ill health and another application in which Kanu sought to be granted bail, pending when the hearing of the appeal was concluded.
However, the Supreme Court has adjourned the case till May 11 for a definite hearing.
