Nnamdi Kanu Didn’t Apologise To Buhari -- Lawyer

It is impossible that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (IPOB) and director of Radio Biafra, tendered an apology to
President Muhammadu Buhari, his lawyer, Vincent Obetta, has said.

Speaking with TheCable on Wednesday, Obetta said reports of Kanu's
apology were proof that government was trying to use all instruments
at its disposal to "puncture" the Biaffra campaigner's defence. "It is
not true," he said. "The government is using every instrument to
puncture what we are doing."

The
Department of State Services (DSS) arraigned Kanu in court in October.

Shuaibu Usman, presiding over the chief magistrate court, Wuse zone 2,
Abuja, had earlier discharged him on all counts of criminal conspiracy
and ownership of an unlawful society brought against him by the
federal government. The federal government then filed a fresh
five-count charge of treasonable felony against Kanu, after Adeniyi
Ademola, a justice of the federal high court, Abuja, ordered the DSS
to release him "unconditionally".

In his ruling, Ademola held that the continued detention of Kanu by
the DSS was unlawful, since the accused was yet to be charged on
suspicion of terrorism. Speaking before the federal high court the
following day, Kanu said he has lost confidence in the court's
abilities to give an order and have the authorities follow it, asking
the court to leave him in detention. "I will rather remain in
detention than subject myself to a trial that I know amounts to
perversion of justice," he had said.

TheCable