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Justice Omotosho has continued the illegal unjust trial of Nnamdi Kanu, forcing a deadline that expires today (5th November) for Kanu to open his defense even when it is clear that he has no case in court. The Nigerian government keeps saying it has a case against Nnamdi Kanu, but when you strip away the politics and look strictly at the law, you can see that the government has no case.

Everything about the case from how he was kidnapped from Kenya to the phantom laws used to charge him violates the Nigerian constitution and international laws that Nigeria is bound to uphold. This case against Nnamdi Kanu can only stand if it rests on a lawful foundation. Since such foundation is broken, it is obvious that what going on in Justice Omotosho's court is not a lawful prosecution, it is an illegal persecution, a judicial betrayal.

There is no law that supersedes the constitution,
section 1 (3) of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution states and I quote

"If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void."

This means that once the government breaks constititional law, everything that follows becomes illegal. You can’t dispense justice on illegality.

Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping from Kenya in 2021, done without any extradition order, broke Nigerian and Kenyan law. The Court of Appeal in 2022 and the Kenyan High Court in 2025 both ruled that the extraordinary rendition was illegal.
By disregarding due process, Nigeria's government destroyed the court’s power to try Kanu. There is no law or court order that can upturn it.

- Extraordinary Rendition

The UN working group on arbitrary detention (2022) and the Kenyan courts have already ruled that Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest and transfer to Nigeria was illegal. Nigeria has signed treaties like the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which forbid this kind of illegalities and because these treaties are part of Nigerian law, ignoring it also means breaking the constitution. A trial that begins with a crime by the state itself cannot be legitimate.

- Right To Fair Hearing

Section 36 of Nigeria's constitution protects the right to fair hearing, presumption of innocence, and trial only under valid law.
These rights cannot be taken away not even in wartime or national emergency. So when someone is dragged before a court after being kidnapped, denied proper access to lawyers, and charged under outdated laws, the trial is automatically void.

- None Existing Laws

Most of the charges filed by the government come from the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act 2013 which was repealed in 2022 and replaced with the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022. The new Act changed the definitions of some of these offences and penalties. You can’t prosecute someone today under a law that no longer exists that’s retroactive and unconstitutional. Even if the government claims there is a “saving clause,” it can’t override the Constitution or revive a dead statute. If a law seizes to exist, the charges relying on it are dead with it.

- Court of Appeal Ruling

On 13 October 2022, the Court of Appeal in Abuja discharged Kanu and said the government had lost jurisdiction because of the illegal rendition.
Under Section 36 (9) of the constitution states and I quote.

"No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court."

The law is clearly against double jeopardy, once a person is discharged, he can’t be retried for the same matter. The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision sending the case back for trial ignored this law and the principle of finality. Simply put, once a higher court frees you, another court can’t restart the same case.

- Final Words

If Justice Omotosho has any regard for the law, then Kanu's trial should end today (5th November) with a verdict issued by Justice Omotosho declaring his immediate release/acquittal. Nigeria will once again break it's own laws if Nnamdi Knau is not released, if Justice Omotosho fails to uphold the constitution, the Nigerian judiciary will once again proof to the whole world that Nigeria is a shamelessly lawless country, breaking It's obligatory internatonal commitments and treaties to protect human rights, to guarantee fair trials and to forestall against arbitrary detentions.

Justice Omotosho's illegal unjust trial and sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu will be the final nail that will destroy what is left of Nigeria's judicial credibility forever.

Ok, like you once destroyed judiciary after putting LP, her lawyers and obidients to shame class they belong against Tinubu after election, right? KANU and his sacked lawyers knew there was no way they could win at court and his attempt to delay court has been bursted several times. All these laws you wrote out here, go and give them to KANU or you go there to defend him. There is no court session online

sreamsense:
Ok, like you once destroyed judiciary after putting LP, her lawyers and obidients to shame class they belong against Tinubu after election, right? KANU and his sacked lawyers knew there was no way they could win at court and his attempt to delay court has been bursted several times. All these laws you wrote out here, go and give them to KANU or you go there to defend him. There is no court session online

Very nice response, he should use all this law to defend himself

truthera:
Justice Omotosho has continued the illegal unjust trial of Nnamdi Kanu, forcing a deadline that expires today (5th November) for Kanu to open his defense even when it is clear that he has no case in court. The Nigerian government keeps saying it has a case against Nnamdi Kanu, but when you strip away the politics and look strictly at the law, you can see that the government has no case.
Everything about the case from how he was kidnapped from Kenya to the phantom laws used to charge him violates the Nigerian Constitution and international laws that Nigeria is bound to uphold. This case against Nnamdi Kanu can only stand if it rests on a lawful foundation. Since such foundation is broken, it is obvious that what going on in Justice Omotosho's court is not a lawful prosecution, it is an illegal persecution, a judicial betrayal.

There is no law that supersedes the constitution,
section 1(3) of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution states and I quote

"If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void."

This means that once the government breaks constititional law, everything that follows becomes illegal. You can’t dispense justice on illegality.
Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping from Kenya in 2021, done without any extradition order, broke Nigerian and Kenyan law. The Court of Appeal in 2022 and the Kenyan High Court in 2025 both ruled that the extraordinary rendition was illegal.
By disregarding due process, Nigeria's government destroyed the court’s power to try Kanu. There is no law or court order that can upturn it.

- Extraordinary Rendition

The UN working group on arbitrary detention (2022) and the Kenyan courts have already ruled that Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest and transfer to Nigeria was illegal. Nigeria has signed treaties like the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which forbid this kind of illegalities and because these treaties are part of Nigerian law, ignoring it also means breaking the constitution. A trial that begins with a crime by the state itself cannot be legitimate.

- Right To Fair Hearing

Section 36 of Nigeria's constitution protects the right to fair hearing, presumption of innocence, and trial only under valid law.
These rights cannot be taken away not even in wartime or national emergency.
So when someone is dragged before a court after being kidnapped, denied proper access to lawyers, and charged under outdated laws, the trial is automatically void.

- None Existing Laws

Most of the charges filed by the government come from the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act 2013 which was repealed in 2022 and replaced with the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022. The new Act changed the definitions of some of these offences and penalties. You can’t prosecute someone today under a law that no longer exists that’s retroactive and unconstitutional. Even if the government claims there is a “saving clause,” it can’t override the Constitution or revive a dead statute. If a law seizes to exist, the charges relying on it are dead with it.

- Court of Appeal Ruling

On 13 October 2022, the Court of Appeal in Abuja discharged Kanu and said the government had lost jurisdiction because of the illegal rendition.
Under Section 36 (9) of the constitution states and I quote.

"No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court."

The law is clearly against double jeopardy, once a person is discharged, he can’t be retried for the same matter. The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision sending the case back for trial ignored this law and the principle of finality. Simply put, once a higher court frees you, another court can’t restart the same case.

- Final Words

If Justice Omotosho has any regard for the law, then Kanu's trial should end today (5th November) with a verdict issued by Justice Omotosho declaring his immediate release/acquittal. Nigeria will once again break it's own laws if Nnamdi Knau is not released, if Justice Omotosho fails to uphold the constitition, the Nigerian judiciary will once again proof to the whole world that Nigeria is a shamelessly lawless country, breaking It's obligatory internatonal commitments and treaties to protect human rights, to guarantee fair trials and to forestall against arbitrary detentions.

Justice Omotosho's illegal unjust trial and sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu will be the final nail that will destroy what is left of Nigeria's judicial credibility forever.

And Kanu's only defense is that he is standing trial in a Nigerian court over what he describes as an illegal rendition despite Supreme Court saying the Government can go ahead with their case against Kanu.

Kanu is also claiming the offenses he is being tried for were committed outside Nigerian shores in England.

If Finland could go on and arrest, prosecute and convict Ekpa for inciting violence in Nigeria from the comfort of his home in Finland why can't Kanu face prosecution in Nigeria?

The whole case is a Jamboree and a sham.

The yoruba judge is doing everything possible to Read already scripted judgement.



He doesn't care about justice or Kanu defense.





But Kanu is not someone he can threaten to submission.


Let see the Yoruba man do his worst today.

Yes there is no court session online but public discuss/opinion is shaped online. I've no idea about what you are trying to say as this case has nothing to do with LP or obidients. I know that there are people reading the comments we make here that know Justice Omotosho, that's if he is not already a member of Nairaland. Let this message serve as reminder to him and Nigerians that it is not Nnamdi Kanu that is on trial but the Nigerian judiciary....

sreamsense:
Ok, like you once destroyed judiciary after putting LP, her lawyers and obidients to shame class they belong against Tinubu after election, right? KANU and his sacked lawyers knew there was no way they could win at court and his attempt to delay court has been bursted several times. All these laws you wrote out here, go and give them to KANU or you go there to defend him. There is no court session online

truthera:
Justice Omotosho has continued the illegal unjust trial of Nnamdi Kanu, forcing a deadline that expires today (5th November) for Kanu to open his defense even when it is clear that he has no case in court. The Nigerian government keeps saying it has a case against Nnamdi Kanu, but when you strip away the politics and look strictly at the law, you can see that the government has no case.

Everything about the case from how he was kidnapped from Kenya to the phantom laws used to charge him violates the Nigerian constitution and international laws that Nigeria is bound to uphold. This case against Nnamdi Kanu can only stand if it rests on a lawful foundation. Since such foundation is broken, it is obvious that what going on in Justice Omotosho's court is not a lawful prosecution, it is an illegal persecution, a judicial betrayal.

There is no law that supersedes the constitution,
section 1 (3) of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution states and I quote

"If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void."

This means that once the government breaks constititional law, everything that follows becomes illegal. You can’t dispense justice on illegality.

Nnamdi Kanu’s kidnapping from Kenya in 2021, done without any extradition order, broke Nigerian and Kenyan law. The Court of Appeal in 2022 and the Kenyan High Court in 2025 both ruled that the extraordinary rendition was illegal.
By disregarding due process, Nigeria's government destroyed the court’s power to try Kanu. There is no law or court order that can upturn it.

- Extraordinary Rendition

The UN working group on arbitrary detention (2022) and the Kenyan courts have already ruled that Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest and transfer to Nigeria was illegal. Nigeria has signed treaties like the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which forbid this kind of illegalities and because these treaties are part of Nigerian law, ignoring it also means breaking the constitution. A trial that begins with a crime by the state itself cannot be legitimate.

- Right To Fair Hearing

Section 36 of Nigeria's constitution protects the right to fair hearing, presumption of innocence, and trial only under valid law.
These rights cannot be taken away not even in wartime or national emergency. So when someone is dragged before a court after being kidnapped, denied proper access to lawyers, and charged under outdated laws, the trial is automatically void.

- None Existing Laws

Most of the charges filed by the government come from the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act 2013 which was repealed in 2022 and replaced with the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022. The new Act changed the definitions of some of these offences and penalties. You can’t prosecute someone today under a law that no longer exists that’s retroactive and unconstitutional. Even if the government claims there is a “saving clause,” it can’t override the Constitution or revive a dead statute. If a law seizes to exist, the charges relying on it are dead with it.

- Court of Appeal Ruling

On 13 October 2022, the Court of Appeal in Abuja discharged Kanu and said the government had lost jurisdiction because of the illegal rendition.
Under Section 36 (9) of the constitution states and I quote.

"No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court."

The law is clearly against double jeopardy, once a person is discharged, he can’t be retried for the same matter. The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision sending the case back for trial ignored this law and the principle of finality. Simply put, once a higher court frees you, another court can’t restart the same case.

- Final Words

If Justice Omotosho has any regard for the law, then Kanu's trial should end today (5th November) with a verdict issued by Justice Omotosho declaring his immediate release/acquittal. Nigeria will once again break it's own laws if Nnamdi Knau is not released, if Justice Omotosho fails to uphold the constitution, the Nigerian judiciary will once again proof to the whole world that Nigeria is a shamelessly lawless country, breaking It's obligatory internatonal commitments and treaties to protect human rights, to guarantee fair trials and to forestall against arbitrary detentions.

Justice Omotosho's illegal unjust trial and sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu will be the final nail that will destroy what is left of Nigeria's judicial credibility forever.

You don't know the law.
Your submission on the judgement of the supreme Court shows that.
How will you opine that the judgment of the Appeal court is final against the supreme court.
So according to you, if the Appeal court says that someone is innocent and then the supreme Court says that someone is guilty, according to you now, the Appeal judgment is valid and that of the supreme judgment is invalid. So, according to you, the Appeal is the final court and the supreme Court is a lower court.

WHICH LAW SCHOOL DID YOU ATTEND PLEASE?

No Be Juju Be Dat?

Section 36 (9) of the 1999 constitution is clear.....

"No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court."

Nnamdi Kanu has no case in court as long as Nigeria's constitution is concerned. Even the government was not able to prove that Kanu committed any offense as regards all terrorism charges that was filed against him. There is a big difference between Kanu's case and Simon Ekpa's case in Finland. Your attempt to use that a comparison only exposes your biased hypocrisy and love for lawlessness....

Okonsbecky:
And Kanu's only defense is that he is standing trial in a Nigerian court over what he describes as an illegal rendition despite Supreme Court saying the Government can go ahead with their case against Kanu.

Kanu is also claiming the offenses he is being tried for were committed outside Nigerian shores in England.

If Finland could go on and arrest, prosecute and convict Ekpa for inciting violence in Nigeria from the comfort of his home in Finland why can't Kanu face prosecution in Nigeria?

The so called President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a Yoruba Muslim ..
His Attorney General of The Federation is a Yoruba
The Federal government Legal team prosecuting Kanu, is full of Yoruba Muslim
The Leader of The DSS holding Kanu is a Yoruba
And wait for this one; The Trial Judge who has been desperate to convict at all cost is Yoruba too!


Essentially, this whole Legal team, including the utterly inebriated trial judge that initiated these judicial rigmarole that were all unleashed by the socalled "Federal Government" to convict Kanu by fire and by force. These whole team from the beginning to the end, are all saturated with Yoruba Muslims whose mission in this case is motivated by all sorts of primitive ethnic bile.

Not even Buhari in his most tribal state will do this...

Dalohad:
The whole case is a Jamboree and a sham.

We know it's a jamboree but go release the efulefu let's see naa!

truthera:
Section 36 (9) of the 1999 constitution is clear.....

"No person who shows that he has been tried by any court of competent jurisdiction or tribunal for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for a criminal offence having the same ingredients as that offence save upon the order of a superior court."

Nnamdi Kanu has no case in court as long as Nigeria's constitution is concerned. Even the government was not able to prove that Kanu committed any offense as regards all terrorism charges that was filed against him. There is a big difference between Kanu's case and Simon Ekpa's case in Finland. Your attempt to use that a comparison only exposes your biased hypocrisy and love for lawlessness....

Send these quotes to Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer.

Ohhh! I forgot!

You are quoting the zoo's constitution

Nnamdi Kalu's detention and trial is not on the basis of terrorism, but on threat to existence of one Nigeria. So because the political elites don't want Nigeria to divide,the judiciary will find a clause to convict Nnamdi Kalu so as to silence his agitation for sovereign state of Biafra.

Today, Nnamdi Kanu will once again expose and diagrace Nigeria over it's lawlessness. Since you want to be referred as a Zoo, so be it....

Okoroawusa:
Send these quotes to Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer.

Ohhh! I forgot!

You are quoting the zoo's constitution

truthera:
Today, Nnamdi Kanu will once again expose and diagrace Nigeria over it's lawlessness. Since you want to be referred as a Zoo, so be it....

Anakogheri

Yes Kanu should've been released since last year.

RoxyBrownAutos:
Nnamdi Kalu's detention and trial is not on the basis of terrorism, but on threat to existence of one Nigeria. So because the political elites don't want Nigeria to divide,the judiciary will find a clause to convict Nnamdi Kalu so as to silence his agitation for sovereign state of Biafra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZimvz1eIps

Nnamdi Kanu will not be released until he finishes his time.