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WHY NIGERIA WILL NEVER LIST THE APPEAL OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU — AND THE BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST EVERY COURT THAT MADE THIS FRAUD POSSIBLE

The question is no longer whether Nigeria will defend the conviction of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The question is why Nigeria has decided it cannot afford to.

The answer: listing this appeal would end the Nigerian bench as a credible institution. Not because IPOB says so.

Because the record says so.

THREE FACTS. NO SPIN.

One — The Federal Government filed nothing. Time expired. No brief. No living section. No defence.

Two — The Court of Appeal will not list the case.

Three — The trial judge convicted under a dead law.

That is not delay. That is not congestion. That is a bench that has read the file, understood what is inside it, and decided the safest course is to never open it.

THE BILL OF INDICTMENT

I. THE COURT OF APPEAL — UNLAWFUL CIVIL STAY, THEN REFUSAL TO LIST

The Court of Appeal discharged Kanu. That discharge was a criminal outcome — a final criminal disposition. The same Court of Appeal then responded not with criminal process, but with a civil stay — a mechanism from an entirely different body of law — and used it to override its own criminal discharge.

Within fourteen days, it constituted a fresh panel. Within fourteen days, it kept a man in custody by applying the wrong law to the wrong proceeding. A civil stay cannot undo a criminal discharge. That is not innovation. That is abuse of process.

Then it got worse. Having unlawfully overridden its own discharge, the same court now refuses to list the appeal arising from the conviction that followed. It created the custody and then locked the courtroom door.

Indictment: The Court of Appeal is implicated in unlawfully overriding a criminal discharge with a civil mechanism — and then shielding the resulting conviction from all review.


II. THE SUPREME COURT — QUASHED COUNTS REVIVED WITHOUT JURISDICTION

Counts were quashed. Quashed means dead. Not dormant. Not suspended. Dead. The Supreme Court revived them anyway — not by ordering fresh charges, not by remanding for retrial, but by breathing life into corpses and sending them back for trial as though they had never been quashed.

A court cannot revive what it has no jurisdiction to revive. Every proceeding that followed is tainted by that original excess.

Indictment: The Supreme Court is implicated in creating a trial with no lawful foundation.

III. THE HIGH COURT — OMOTOSHO'S DEAD-LAW CONVICTION

By the time the case reached Justice Omotosho, the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 had been repealed.

The living statute was the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, whose transitional provisions told any honest court what to do: continue the saved proceeding under the corresponding provisions of the 2022 Act.

Omotosho had the living law. He had the transition mechanism. He had the Constitution. He had the Supreme Court in State v. Egigia (2024) LPELR-62009(SC), which holds a repealed law has no legal life.

He stated the rule himself: "No written law, no conviction."

Then he convicted under the dead law.

He did not transition the proceeding. He reached into the grave and dragged out a repealed statute to sustain a conviction. That is not a judge. That is a gravedigger in judicial robes.

Indictment: The High Court is implicated in convicting under a statute that no longer existed, in violation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court's own authority, and the mandatory transition to the TPPA 2022.

IV. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL — FILED NOTHING

The chief law officer of the Federation had one job: defend the conviction or concede it. He did neither. He let time expire. That silence is the only honest document the Federation has produced in this appeal.

Indictment: The AGF is implicated in abandoning a conviction he cannot defend.

WHY THEY WILL NOT LIST IT: BECAUSE THE MAN IS ARGUING HIS OWN CASE

The Nigerian state has one reliable method for killing an appeal: buy the lawyer, or frighten the lawyer. Threaten his practice. Threaten his family. Offer him a bench. Make him understand that diligence will cost him his career. It works. It has always worked.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu removed that weapon. He is representing himself.

There is no lawyer to threaten. No chambers to squeeze. No promotion to dangle. No silence to purchase.

And so the state is left with the one thing it has never survived: a defendant who knows the law, knows the record, and cannot be bought.

THE BRIEF IS HANDWRITTEN. 115 PAGES. EIGHT ISSUES.

A man in custody, without a law library, without researchers, without the resources the Federation pours into its prosecutors, produced a 115-page appellant brief, handwritten, raising eight issues for determination.
Those eight issues are precise, sequential, and grounded in the Constitution, the Supreme Court's own authority, and the transitional provisions of the TPPA 2022. They are the reason the Court of Appeal will not sit.

Because to hear them is to answer them. And to answer them is to confront the fact that:

The trial judge recited "no written law, no conviction" — then convicted under a repealed law.

He cited the Supreme Court against dead statutes — then used a dead statute anyway.

The TPPA 2022 provided the exact mechanism for transition — and it was deliberately ignored.

A preserved proceeding is not a resurrected statute.

The conviction therefore has no lawful foundation and is a nullity.

If the Court of Appeal answers honestly, the conviction dies. If it answers dishonestly, the bench dies.

THE JUDICIARY IS NOT PROTECTING THE GOVERNMENT. IT IS PROTECTING ITSELF.

This appeal climbs. If the Court of Appeal affirms Omotosho, the Supreme Court must rule on whether a Nigerian judge may convict under a repealed statute — after that same judge quoted the Supreme Court forbidding it.

The Supreme Court already answered in Egigia. To contradict itself now is to destroy its own authority. Not to contradict itself is to collapse the conviction - and every justice who declined to stop it wears the consequence.

REMEMBER THE FOURTEEN DAYS.

Fourteen days to constitute a panel and keep Kanu in custody after the Court of Appeal had already discharged him.

Months of silence now that he asks for a hearing.

Fourteen days to keep him in chains. Endless silence now that he asks for justice.

That contrast is not IPOB's allegation. It is the court's own conduct. When the state needed speed, the judiciary sprinted. When the prisoner needs a hearing, the judiciary vanishes.

TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Ask Abuja, publicly, every single day:

Why has the Court of Appeal refused to list the appeal?

Why did the Federal Government file nothing before time expired?

Why assemble a panel in fourteen days to keep him in custody, but none to hear his appeal?

And what living Act, and what section, governed the conviction of 20 November 2025?

They have no answers. They answered by filing nothing and hiding the file.

THE CONCLUSION

The Court of Appeal is not saving the government. It is not saving Omotosho. It is not saving the Attorney-General. It is not saving the Chief Justice.

It is delaying the moment when all of them must be judged by the same standard they applied to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

That moment cannot be delayed forever. The brief exists. The issues exist. The record exists. The dead law exists. The Constitution exists.

And one sentence from Omotosho's own mouth — the sentence he then betrayed — will stand as the verdict on all of them:

NO WRITTEN LAW, NO CONVICTION.

THE GOVERNMENT FILED NOTHING.

THE COURT OF APPEAL USED AN UNLAWFUL CIVIL STAY TO OVERRIDE A CRIMINAL DISCHARGE — THEN REFUSED TO LIST THE APPEAL.

THE SUPREME COURT REVIVED QUASHED COUNTS WITHOUT JURISDICTION.

THE TRIAL JUDGE CONVICTED UNDER A DEAD LAW.

EVERY SUPERIOR COURT OF RECORD IS IMPLICATED.

THE CONVICTION OF ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU IS VOID. IT IS A NULLITY.

List it. Defend it. Or admit you are afraid to.

Issued by:

ONYEDIKACHI IFEDI ESQ.

10 September 2026

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu #FreeMaziNnamdiKanuNow

https://www.facebook.com/mazi.benjamin.madubugwu/posts/press-statementby-onyedikachi-ifedi-esq10-september-2026why-nigeria-will-never-l/1059815676826448/

Nnamdi Kanu's trial exposed Nigeria as a lawless shameless country masquerading as a democracy..... The judiciary has lost all integrity as judges have no shame in supervising injustice and illegality..... Nnamdi Kanu's freedom is non-negotiable, he will surely get justice at the appointed time...

When Tinubu losses his election. He will pardon Nnamdi Kanu because he believes he will be a problem to the next administration.

malcom1X:
When Tinubu losses his election. He will pardon Nnamdi Kanu because he believes he will be a problem to the next administration.

Ok Chinedu ! 1. It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than tinubu to lose this election 2. Obi did not appoint inec ,government appoints inec , hence once they announce the winner, government will domesticate any protest easily, especially if it’s coming from southeast , like eating salads .

May God Oluremi Tinubu. The mother of the nation.

Nnamdi Kanu needs no pardon from anyone to be free as it is his constitutional right... Nigeria broke it's own laws to jail him..... It is a shame you see nothing wrong with the injustice, illegality and lawlessness done to Nnamdi Kanu.... As long as the law exists, if Nigeria wasn't a lawless country, Justice Omotosho and others who were responsible for this illegality should've been prosecuted for Kanu's unjust imprisonment.....

malcom1X:
When Tinubu losses his election. He will pardon Nnamdi Kanu because he believes he will be a problem to the next administration.

@nlfmod hope this thread can be featured....

My friend , criminal appeals are heard on a first come, first serve basis.

Nnamdi Kanu must wait his turn.

He is now a convict at the mercy of the Justice system and no longer a free man with full conditional constitutional rights when he was standing trial before Justice Omotosho.

The Appeal court is even most likely going to even impose the recommended capital sentence sef.

If Kanu is smart, he will drop his appeal and focus on getting a presidential pardon from Tinubu .

As long as he is in court appealing his sentence, the President can not grant him a pardon.

And Kanu should be aware that only Tinubu can grant him a pardon.

Even if Atiku wins (which he won't), Atiku will never grant Kanu a pardon . This is same Atiku who deleted his condemnation post on Deborah's lynching by a mob of Jihadist students .

And since 2031 is sure to be a northerner, there's no way Kanu can secure a pardon from that adminstration.


Kanu should withdraw his appeal and begin to seek a pardon from Tinubu.

Going to court only benefits his charge and bail legal team and he risks the court imposing the recommended death sentence on him because the evidence is too overwhelming.

truthera:
Nnamdi Kanu needs no pardon from anyone to be free as it is his constitutional right... Nigeria broke it's own laws to jail him..... It is a shame you see nothing wrong with the injustice, illegality and lawlessness done to Nnamdi Kanu.... As long as the law, if Nigeria wasn't a lawless country, Justice Omotosho and others who were responsible for this illegality should've been prosecuted for Kanu's unjust imprisonment.....

It's people like you that led Kanu to think he is invisible

malcom1X:
When Tinubu losses his election. He will pardon Nnamdi Kanu because he believes he will be a problem to the next administration.

Funny you.

I wish I could pry open your brain and see how it is working.


Of what benefit is pardoning Kanu to an outgoing Tinubu ?

Let Atiku come and pardon him for you .

truthera:
Nnamdi Kanu's trial exposed Nigeria as a lawless shameless country masquerading as a democracy..... The judiciary has lost all integrity as judges have no shame in supervising injustice and illegality..... Nnamdi Kanu's freedom is non-negotiable, he will surely get justice at the appointed time...

No foreign nation has spoken against Kanu's then ongoing trial and his final conviction.


Even liberal Finland followed up in that conviction and jailed Ekpa .

Amnesty international that like to Cho Cho did not even bother to issue a statement on Kanu's trial and his final conviction.

Even same amnesty international had condemned Ipob as a violent seccesionist group .

So what is lawless about jailing a terrorist like Kanu ?

truthera:
Nnamdi Kanu needs no pardon from anyone to be free as it is his constitutional right... Nigeria broke it's own laws to jail him..... It is a shame you see nothing wrong with the injustice, illegality and lawlessness done to Nnamdi Kanu.... As long as the law exists, if Nigeria wasn't a lawless country, Justice Omotosho and others who were responsible for this illegality should've been prosecuted for Kanu's unjust imprisonment.....

U are still on this your nonsense hallucination waka .

FSBoperator:
Funny you.

I wish I could pry open your brain and see how it is working.


Of what benefit is pardoning Kanu to an outgoing Tinubu ?

Let Atiku come and pardon him for you .

Kanu is a problem to the country. Pardoning him will bring issues fur the next administration by promoting Biafra and seccession.

You don't understand because you can't.

malcom1X:
Kanu is a problem to the country. Pardoning him will bring issues fur the next administration by promoting Biafra and seccession.

You don't understand because you can't.

He has been contained and his madness checked with his conviction.

Kanu is proof that prisons serve society well.

FSBoperator:
He has been contained and his madness checked with his conviction.

Kanu is proof that prisons serve society well.

So now you're getting to understand me. If the current administration loses the next election. Until swearing in. The president can give him a pardon to roam around again knowing he will cause problems for the next administration.

truthera:
Nnamdi Kanu's trial exposed Nigeria as a lawless shameless country masquerading as a democracy..... The judiciary has lost all integrity as judges have no shame in supervising injustice and illegality..... Nnamdi Kanu's freedom is non-negotiable, he will surely get justice at the appointed time...

Let me agree with you that Nigeria is a lawless country, Nnamdi Kalu was a lawless rebel and secessionist who engineered the death of thousands.

Today he’s a forgotten convict on life imprisonment begging for an appeal to be heard while he refused to enter a defence during his trial, believing he was the wisest man ever to walk the earth.

He boosted with everything - being British and how Britain will order Nigeria to release him, being sent by Chukwu Okeke Abima and even claimed to be an Israelite - all lies and fallacy!

His Just Imprisonment rightly put him out of media circulation, punctured the wheels of IPOB violence and completely destroyed the terror group, restoring normalcy to the East of the Niger.

He lost everything, gained nothing. Like the Bible correctly stated; pride comes before a fall, his arrogance caught up with him and will catch up with others like him including his now fleeing comrades.

Be rest assured that your now imprisoned demigod will not see the light of day for a very long time if he ever does until his dying day.

The fantasies of Biafra has faded like a hangover recovery. Live in your reality that no court on earth can free the convicted criminal - Nnamdi Kalu.

He will surely spend decades behind bars before any President will consider him for a pardon. So if you ever visit him, advice him to enjoy his vacation by learning new things like languages and skills after all he was an unemployable fellow all his life.

Immatex:
Let me agree with you that Nigeria is a lawless country, Nnamdi Kalu was a lawless rebel and secessionist who engineered the death of thousands.

Today he’s a forgotten convict on life imprisonment begging for an appeal to be heard while he refused to enter a defence during his trial, believing he was the wisest man ever to walk the earth.

He boosted with everything - being British and how Britain will order Nigeria to release him, being sent by Chukwu Okeke Abima and even claimed to be an Israelite - all lies and fallacy!

His Just Imprisonment rightly put him out of media circulation, punctured the wheels of IPOB violence and completely destroyed the terror group, restoring normalcy to the East of the Niger.

He lost everything, gained nothing. Like the Bible correctly stated; pride comes before a fall, his arrogance caught up with him and will catch up with others like him including his now fleeing comrades.

Be rest assured that your now imprisoned demigod will not see the light of day for a very long time if he ever does until his dying day.

The fantasies of Biafra has faded like a hangover recovery. Live in your reality that no court on earth can free the convicted criminal - Nnamdi Kalu.

He will surely spend decades behind bars before any President will consider him for a pardon. So if you ever visit him, advice him to enjoy his vacation by learning new things like languages and skills after all he was an unemployable fellow all his life.

Don't mind them

From Nigeria had no powers to arrest and try Kanu in court to Kanu refusing to enter his own defense by claiming his arraignment was illegal and the charges non existing.

Now they are begging the same court they ridicule to hear their appeal

truthera:
Nnamdi Kanu needs no pardon from anyone to be free as it is his constitutional right... Nigeria broke it's own laws to jail him..... It is a shame you see nothing wrong with the injustice, illegality and lawlessness done to Nnamdi Kanu.... As long as the law exists, if Nigeria wasn't a lawless country, Justice Omotosho and others who were responsible for this illegality should've been prosecuted for Kanu's unjust imprisonment.....

so u mean nnamdi kanu will walk free in countries like America if he ordered his foot soldiers to kill American citizens n security operatives?


Follow crime daily on FB, Instagram n all social media platforms n see what judges do to Americans that kill just one police officer.


The problem with people like u is that u aren't exposed at all, u are only limited to your village not even Nigeria

Or u are saying it's not a crime in Nigeria to order rag tag militias to kill citizens n security operatives?

There's an ibo barrister that analysed nnamdi kanu case on channels tv n he said he will also sent him to life if he handled his case despite him being an ibo man.

If Simon ekpa that wasn't directly involved could be given 6 years despite d fact he didn't do it in their country, imagine what they will do to him if his actions hurt just one Finnish.

Even gangster rappers know the implications of all these things u take with hand of levity.

Go n listen to soul survivor by akon n u will understand where he said 25 years or life jail is no joke for taking just one soul but nnamdi kanu took many n u are here defending him.

Keep wallowing in your ignorance till u get exposed

I've read the comments made by you and others in this thread in your futile attempt to whitewash the lawlessness and shame that Nigeria's judiciary has become, none of you in your hypocrisy had the guts to dispute the points made in the post highlighting the judicial anomalies, recklessness and lawlessness that characterized Nnamdi Kanu's unjust trial.... I am certain that all of you commenting here will do far worse in court if any of you were subjected to the same unjust treatments, if any of you were convicted on a non existant law.... You can deceive yourselves with the usual talking points of condemning Nnamdi Kanu but the truth remains that he did not get a fair trial, he was denied justice. I laughed reading how you expect other countries to tell Nigeria how to dispense justice. So Amnesty international and others countries you mentioned must speak out before Nigerian judges know that they have to do the right thing....?

Since Nigeria did not follow due process or obey it's own laws over Nnamdi Kanu's trial, Nigeria lost the argument to detain or imprison him. This is why his continued detention is a violation of his fundamental rights and must be condemned.... Nnamdi Kanu remains innocent of any crime and should be released until such a time the Nigerian government is ready to provide solid evidence and conduct a fair trial to prove him guilty of terrorism....

FSBoperator:
No foreign nation has spoken against Kanu's then ongoing trial and his final conviction.


Even liberal Finland followed up in that conviction and jailed Ekpa .

Amnesty international that like to Cho Cho did not even bother to issue a statement on Kanu's trial and his final conviction.

Even same amnesty international had condemned Ipob as a violent seccesionist group .

So what is lawless about jailing a terrorist like Kanu ?

truthera:
.... I am certain that all of you commenting here will do far worse in court[b] if any of you were subjected to the same unjust treatments, if any of you were convicted on a non existant law.... [/b]

This is the gross ignorance you all keep clinging to.

The ammended law used to convict Kanu did not set aside the original law that Kanu was arraigned for.

The law states clearly that the new amended law will not halt any ongoing proceedings or set aside any convictions of the previous law which the amended terrorism and incitement law had come to replace.

The ammended law only broadened the net and explicitly stated that it upholds the previous tenets of the old law.

The amended terrorism and incitement law did not abrogate the previous law but only expanded it's definition.

Kanu was earlier arraigned on the old ruling which had been replaced by the new law.

The prosecution did not seek to amend the charges before the court because the new law explicitly stated that ongoing cases before a court can proceed on the old law and all previous convictions stand.

If someone is standing trial for raping a minor under ordinary rape charges prior to passage of laws that explicitly adds another severe penalty for raping a minor , does that invalidate the original rape ?

I am not sure what you are trying to prove here because you know the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 can not be greater or above Nigeria's constitution....

It is simple and straightforward, Section 36 (12) of the Constitution states clearly that a person can only be convicted for an offence defined and prescribed by a written law currently in force meaning trials or convictions under a repealed law are unconstitutional.... Take note of the sentence highlighted "currently in force" as there is no ambiguity..... The Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 that was used to arraign and convict Nnamdi Kanu is a repealed law, a non-existant law (No longer in force)....

FSBoperator:
This is the gross ignorance you all keep clinging to.

The ammended law used to convict Kanu did not set aside the original law that Kanu was arraigned for.

The law states clearly that the new amended law will not halt any ongoing proceedings or set aside any convictions of the previous law which the amended terrorism and incitement law had come to replace.

The ammended law only broadened the net and explicitly stated that it upholds the previous tenets of the old law.

The amended terrorism and incitement law did not abrogate the previous law but only expanded it's definition.

Kanu was earlier arraigned on the old ruling which had been replaced by the new law.

The prosecution did not seek to amend the charges before the court because the new law explicitly stated that ongoing cases before a court can proceed on the old law and all previous convictions stand.

If someone is standing trial for raping a minor under ordinary rape charges prior to passage of laws that explicitly adds another severe penalty for raping a minor , does that invalidate the original rape ?

truthera:
I am not sure what you are trying to prove here because you know Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 can not be above Nigeria's constitution....

It is simple and straightforward, Section 36 (12) of the Constitution states clear that a person can only be convicted for an offence defined and prescribed by a written law currently in force meaning trials or convictions under a repealed law are unconstitutional.... Take note of the sentence highlighted "currently in force" as there is no ambiguity..... Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 is a repealed law, a non-existant law (No longer in force)....

My friend the law was not repealed.

The ammended law simply expanded on the last.

It was not an abrogation as you want it to appear .
Your argument is that the prosecution continued it's case on the old law when it is stared in the new law that all ongoing cases being tried or having been concluded with a conviction still stand .

That is the clause attached to that amended law which you are dubiously ignoring.

Show me a section of your constitution that permits a repealed law to be expanded or extended? Your argument is empty because once a law is repealed it ceases to exist, you can not conjoin it as an extension to another law.... Justice Omotosho did not specify that Nnamdi Kanu was been sentenced on any new law.... Your continued attempt at defending glaring injustice and lawlessness is pathetic......

FSBoperator:
My friend the law was not repealed.

The ammended law simply expanded on the last.

It was not an abrogation as you want it to appear .
Your argument is that the prosecution continued it's case on the old law when it is stared in the new law that all ongoing cases being tried or having been concluded with a conviction still stand .

That is the clause attached to that amended law which you are dubiously ignoring.

truthera:
I am not sure what you are trying to prove here because you know the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 can not be greater or above Nigeria's constitution....

It is simple and straightforward, Section 36 (12) of the Constitution states clear that a person can only be convicted for an offence defined and prescribed by a written law currently in force meaning trials or convictions under a repealed law are unconstitutional.... Take note of the sentence highlighted "currently in force" as there is no ambiguity..... The Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 that was used to arraign and convict Nnamdi Kanu is a repealed law, a non-existant law (No longer in force)....

Section 97 provides that any regulation, order, ongoing case in court, or thing done under the repealed Acts "shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue to be in force and have effect as if made… under the corresponding provisions of this Act."


Section 98(3) states:

"Any proceeding, prosecution, sentence, judgment, charge or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act under any of the repealed Acts may be continued or commenced… as if this Act had not been made."

truthera:
Show me a section of your constitution that permits a repealed law to be expanded or extended? Your argument is empty because once a law is repealed it ceases to exist, you can not conjoin it as an extension to another law.... Justice Omotosho did not specify that Nnamdi Kanu was been sentenced on any new law.... Your continued attempt at defending glaring injustice and lawlessness is pathetic......

Section 98(3) states:

"Any proceeding, prosecution, sentence, judgment, charge or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act under any of the repealed Acts may be continued or commenced… as if this Act had not been made."

Kanu's prosecution was pending as of 12 May 2022, so Section 98(3) saves it — the trial can continue exactly as if the TPPA 2022 had never been enacted, i.e., under the old TPAA 2013.

Truthera , why you run away from your own thread?

Truthera, your Kanu was thinking Justice Omotosho will agree with his dense argument and had the temerity to be demanding from the judge to show him the law that he was standing trial for.

He even went as far as demanding from the prosecution to educate him as if they are his personal lawyers .


When you fail to understand the law, you will learn the hard way before a judge and that's the sad case of the arrogant ignorant Kanu.

What you quoted is not Nigeria's constitution but the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, which I told you earlier is not above Nigeria's constitution. Again, take note that the Constitution is supreme....

Section 1 (3) of the Constitution states clearly that if any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution, the constitution shall prevail, and the other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.....

@FSBoperator, once again your argument is empty, TPPA 2022 is not your constitution, stop defending injustice.....

FSBoperator:
Section 98(3) states:

"Any proceeding, prosecution, sentence, judgment, charge or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act under any of the repealed Acts may be continued or commenced… as if this Act had not been made."

Kanu's prosecution was pending as of 12 May 2022, so Section 98(3) saves it — the trial can continue exactly as if the TPPA 2022 had never been enacted, i.e., under the old TPAA 2013.

truthera:
What you quoted is not Nigeria's constitution but the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, which I told you earlier is not above Nigeria's constitution. Again, take note that the Constitution is supreme....

Section 1 (3) of the Constitution states clearly that if any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution, the constitution shall prevail, and the other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.....

@FSBoperator, once again your argument is empty, TPPA 2022 is not your constitution, stop defending injustice.....

Arrant nonsense.

You are simply being academic by trying to invalidate an ammended law duly passed by the National Assembly .

You should first go to the supreme court to argue firstly how the 2020 law contravenes the constitution .


The NASS are the only body empowered by law to make and pass laws and on passing this ammended law, they explicitly provided a caveat that all ongoing proceedings and convictions immediately ongoing before the passage of the new law stand as they are.

The 2022 law already took care of the constitutional provisions guiding criminal prosecutions .

I will ask you once again, show me a section of your constitution that permits a repealed law to be expanded or extended? You can't, yet you continue to argue ignorantly.... The constitution is clear over this issue, you can not use a repealed law for prosecution or conviction.... It is unconstitutional......

FSBoperator:
Arrant nonsense.

You are simply being academic by trying to invalidate an ammended law duly passed by the National Assembly .

You should first go to the supreme court to argue firstly how the 2020 law contravenes the constitution .


The NASS are the only body empowered by law to make and pass laws and on passing this ammended law, they explicitly provided a caveat that all ongoing proceedings and convictions immediately ongoing before the passage of the new law stand as they are.

The 2022 law already took care of the constitutional provisions guiding criminal prosecutions .

truthera:
WHY NIGERIA WILL NEVER LIST THE APPEAL OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU — AND THE BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST EVERY COURT THAT MADE THIS FRAUD POSSIBLE

The question is no longer whether Nigeria will defend the conviction of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The question is why Nigeria has decided it cannot afford to.

The answer: listing this appeal would end the Nigerian bench as a credible institution. Not because IPOB says so.

Because the record says so.

THREE FACTS. NO SPIN.

One — The Federal Government filed nothing. Time expired. No brief. No living section. No defence.

Two — The Court of Appeal will not list the case.

Three — The trial judge convicted under a dead law.

That is not delay. That is not congestion. That is a bench that has read the file, understood what is inside it, and decided the safest course is to never open it.

THE BILL OF INDICTMENT

I. THE COURT OF APPEAL — UNLAWFUL CIVIL STAY, THEN REFUSAL TO LIST

The Court of Appeal discharged Kanu. That discharge was a criminal outcome — a final criminal disposition. The same Court of Appeal then responded not with criminal process, but with a civil stay — a mechanism from an entirely different body of law — and used it to override its own criminal discharge.

Within fourteen days, it constituted a fresh panel. Within fourteen days, it kept a man in custody by applying the wrong law to the wrong proceeding. A civil stay cannot undo a criminal discharge. That is not innovation. That is abuse of process.

Then it got worse. Having unlawfully overridden its own discharge, the same court now refuses to list the appeal arising from the conviction that followed. It created the custody and then locked the courtroom door.

Indictment: The Court of Appeal is implicated in unlawfully overriding a criminal discharge with a civil mechanism — and then shielding the resulting conviction from all review.


II. THE SUPREME COURT — QUASHED COUNTS REVIVED WITHOUT JURISDICTION

Counts were quashed. Quashed means dead. Not dormant. Not suspended. Dead. The Supreme Court revived them anyway — not by ordering fresh charges, not by remanding for retrial, but by breathing life into corpses and sending them back for trial as though they had never been quashed.

A court cannot revive what it has no jurisdiction to revive. Every proceeding that followed is tainted by that original excess.

Indictment: The Supreme Court is implicated in creating a trial with no lawful foundation.

III. THE HIGH COURT — OMOTOSHO'S DEAD-LAW CONVICTION

By the time the case reached Justice Omotosho, the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 had been repealed.

The living statute was the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, whose transitional provisions told any honest court what to do: continue the saved proceeding under the corresponding provisions of the 2022 Act.

Omotosho had the living law. He had the transition mechanism. He had the Constitution. He had the Supreme Court in State v. Egigia (2024) LPELR-62009(SC), which holds a repealed law has no legal life.

He stated the rule himself: "No written law, no conviction."

Then he convicted under the dead law.

He did not transition the proceeding. He reached into the grave and dragged out a repealed statute to sustain a conviction. That is not a judge. That is a gravedigger in judicial robes.

Indictment: The High Court is implicated in convicting under a statute that no longer existed, in violation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court's own authority, and the mandatory transition to the TPPA 2022.

IV. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL — FILED NOTHING

The chief law officer of the Federation had one job: defend the conviction or concede it. He did neither. He let time expire. That silence is the only honest document the Federation has produced in this appeal.

Indictment: The AGF is implicated in abandoning a conviction he cannot defend.

WHY THEY WILL NOT LIST IT: BECAUSE THE MAN IS ARGUING HIS OWN CASE

The Nigerian state has one reliable method for killing an appeal: buy the lawyer, or frighten the lawyer. Threaten his practice. Threaten his family. Offer him a bench. Make him understand that diligence will cost him his career. It works. It has always worked.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu removed that weapon. He is representing himself.

There is no lawyer to threaten. No chambers to squeeze. No promotion to dangle. No silence to purchase.

And so the state is left with the one thing it has never survived: a defendant who knows the law, knows the record, and cannot be bought.

THE BRIEF IS HANDWRITTEN. 115 PAGES. EIGHT ISSUES.

A man in custody, without a law library, without researchers, without the resources the Federation pours into its prosecutors, produced a 115-page appellant brief, handwritten, raising eight issues for determination.
Those eight issues are precise, sequential, and grounded in the Constitution, the Supreme Court's own authority, and the transitional provisions of the TPPA 2022. They are the reason the Court of Appeal will not sit.

Because to hear them is to answer them. And to answer them is to confront the fact that:

The trial judge recited "no written law, no conviction" — then convicted under a repealed law.

He cited the Supreme Court against dead statutes — then used a dead statute anyway.

The TPPA 2022 provided the exact mechanism for transition — and it was deliberately ignored.

A preserved proceeding is not a resurrected statute.

The conviction therefore has no lawful foundation and is a nullity.

If the Court of Appeal answers honestly, the conviction dies. If it answers dishonestly, the bench dies.

THE JUDICIARY IS NOT PROTECTING THE GOVERNMENT. IT IS PROTECTING ITSELF.

This appeal climbs. If the Court of Appeal affirms Omotosho, the Supreme Court must rule on whether a Nigerian judge may convict under a repealed statute — after that same judge quoted the Supreme Court forbidding it.

The Supreme Court already answered in Egigia. To contradict itself now is to destroy its own authority. Not to contradict itself is to collapse the conviction - and every justice who declined to stop it wears the consequence.

REMEMBER THE FOURTEEN DAYS.

Fourteen days to constitute a panel and keep Kanu in custody after the Court of Appeal had already discharged him.

Months of silence now that he asks for a hearing.

Fourteen days to keep him in chains. Endless silence now that he asks for justice.

That contrast is not IPOB's allegation. It is the court's own conduct. When the state needed speed, the judiciary sprinted. When the prisoner needs a hearing, the judiciary vanishes.

TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Ask Abuja, publicly, every single day:

Why has the Court of Appeal refused to list the appeal?

Why did the Federal Government file nothing before time expired?

Why assemble a panel in fourteen days to keep him in custody, but none to hear his appeal?

And what living Act, and what section, governed the conviction of 20 November 2025?

They have no answers. They answered by filing nothing and hiding the file.

THE CONCLUSION

The Court of Appeal is not saving the government. It is not saving Omotosho. It is not saving the Attorney-General. It is not saving the Chief Justice.

It is delaying the moment when all of them must be judged by the same standard they applied to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

That moment cannot be delayed forever. The brief exists. The issues exist. The record exists. The dead law exists. The Constitution exists.

And one sentence from Omotosho's own mouth — the sentence he then betrayed — will stand as the verdict on all of them:

NO WRITTEN LAW, NO CONVICTION.

THE GOVERNMENT FILED NOTHING.

THE COURT OF APPEAL USED AN UNLAWFUL CIVIL STAY TO OVERRIDE A CRIMINAL DISCHARGE — THEN REFUSED TO LIST THE APPEAL.

THE SUPREME COURT REVIVED QUASHED COUNTS WITHOUT JURISDICTION.

THE TRIAL JUDGE CONVICTED UNDER A DEAD LAW.

EVERY SUPERIOR COURT OF RECORD IS IMPLICATED.

THE CONVICTION OF ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU IS VOID. IT IS A NULLITY.

List it. Defend it. Or admit you are afraid to.

Issued by:

ONYEDIKACHI IFEDI ESQ.

10 September 2026

#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu #FreeMaziNnamdiKanuNow

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The repealed law claim is real but incomplete. Sections 97-98 of TPPA 2022 are savings clauses preserving prosecutions for conduct predating May 2022, standard under the Interpretation Act. Omotosho did invoke this via Section 98(3), so no transition happened is wrong. The narrower dispute: that clause reportedly surfaces only at judgment, never argued at trial. Kanu raised repeal repeatedly but declined to defend the merits despite an adjournment. Unresolved, not the nullity IPOB claims.

truthera:
I will ask you once again, show me a section of your constitution that permits a repealed law to be expanded or extended? You can't, yet you continue to argue ignorantly.... The constitution is clear over this issue, you can not use a repealed law for prosecution or conviction.... It is unconstitutional......

My friend , the ammended law upheld ongoing cases and convictions based on the old law.

The laws are statements and the statement made on the 2022 law explicitly stated that the old law still stand for past convictions and cases undergoing trial and investigation.

It's a law and embedded in it is that clause that made Kanu's trial based on the old law valid.

Your argument is based on a very weak technical foundation which can not hold since the new law upheld the old law for cases pending and last convictions prior to it being signed into effect.

You have no argument.