By Charles Igbo
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, September 26, 2025, ruled that the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has a case to answer.
The Honourable Justice James Omotosho struck out the no-case submission by Kanu and ordered him to open his defence.
The Federal Government had dragged Kanu to Court and preferred charges against him which included, among others, treasonable felony.
Kanu leads IPOB, a group agitating for an independent State of Biafra which, according to it, would include all Igbo-speaking areas of Nigeria.
The ruling dismissing his no- case submission came after the Federal Government closed its case against Kanu having presented witnesses and evidence(s).
Kanu arrived the Court, Friday, alongside his Lawyer, Kanu Agabi, SAN, a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, escorted by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.
The Federal Government’s legal team is led by Asiwaju Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN.
Not a few people had hoped, and wished, that the Federal Government would use the window offered by the no-case application filed by Kanu, and set him free.
A couple of times, Kanu had either been granted bail or set free by Courts, but that had not happened as the Federal Government appealed such rulings.
Friday’s ruling means that Kanu’s real trial and defence would now start in earnest.
Kanu has been under the custody of the Federal Government and facing prosecution since his rendition from Nairobi, Kenya in 2021.
All efforts for a political solution to his case had fallen through, the promise by, especially, late President Muhammadu Buhari to release him after a passionate appeal by Igbo Elders notwithstanding.
A number of organizations, including Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, had, also, appealed for his release a number of times but in vain.
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