Nnamdi Kanu vows to challenge court ruling affirming IPOB’s proscription

The leader of the prohibited Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has vowed to challenge the Court of Appeal judgment affirming the proscription of IPOB as a terrorist group.

Mr. Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, in a statement on Friday night, said Mr Kanu affirmed this when he and other members of his legal team visited the IPOB leader on Friday at the facility of the State Security Service (SSS).

It was earlier reported that the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the proscription of IPOB in Nigeria.

IPOB is a group leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the South-east and some parts of the South-south Nigeria.

The Nigerian government, under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2017, proscribed the separatist group.

A Federal High Court in Abuja formalised the IPOB’s proscription and tagged the group a terrorist organisation.

Speaking through Mr Ejimakor, his special counsel, Mr Kanu argued that the judgement affirming IPOB’s proscription was faulty.

“The ruling yesterday (Thursday) by the Court of Appeal affirming the proscription of IPOB as a terror group will live in infamy and thus shall be resisted vigorously within the parameters of the law – municipal and international.

“Sooner than later, it shall be demonstrated that the judgment did not pass the muster of the Nigerian Constitution and the statutes pertinent to it,” he argued.