“Justice Nyako Told Me Case Against Nnamdi Kanu Difficult To Prove” – Dr. Sam Amadi

By Charles Igbo

Dr. Sam Amadi, a Law Lecturer at the Baze University, prolific commentator on political and current affairs, and Director, Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has made a shocking disclosure.

Amadi, former Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory  Commission NERC, revealed that the Honourable Justice Binta Nyako, told him, about two years ago, that the case against detained Leader of the Indigenous peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, will be difficult to prove. Nyako is the Judge who, for years, has been handling the case against Kanu by the Federal Government.

But on Tuesday, September 24, at the resumption of the case, Nyako, a Federal High Court Judge, recused herself from Kanu’s trial, and said she was returning the case file to the Chief Judge of the Court, the Honourable Justice John Tsoho, for a reassignment to another Judge.

Nyako’s action followed an unprecedented disruption of Court proceedings  by Kanu that Tuesday.

In the dock while his Lawyer, Alloy Ejimakor, was addressing the Court, Kanu sprang up and ordered Ejimakor to sit down. He then took the microphone and proceeded to address the Court himself.

In his address to his listeners, most of whom were taken aback, Kanu said he had lost confidence in Justice Nyako’s Court, and asked her Lordship to recuse herself from the case.

After listening to him, a calm Nyako, inspite of appeals from prosecution  Lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, to ignore Kanu’s submission, opted to recuse herself. She said she would return the case file to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.

Enters, Dr Sam Amadi.

Weighing-in on the  incident, Amadi said he was not surprised at the way the Kanu trial is panning out. He submitted that it would be difficult to prove the charges against the IPOB Leader and added that the charges make no sense. He submitted it was a political trial.

But more ominously, Amadi, in his post on X, said it came as no surprise to him that Justice Nyako decided to hands-off the Kanu case.

Amadi: “The charges against Nnamdi Kanu do not make much sense legally speaking, and in my opinion, difficult to prove.

“Justice Binta said something close to that to me two years ago. Not surprised she backed down.

“It is a political trial in the guise of  a legal trial. End it.”

The question: If Justice Nyako was of this opinion even two years ago, and even said so to Amadi, what stopped her from discharging and acquitting  Kanu of the charges all these years?

The IPOB Leader has been in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, since 2021, from where he is taken to Justice Nyako’s Court regularly.