Nnamdi Kanu: US Envoy Caution Nigeria

Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has cautioned the Nigerian Authorities against the far-reaching implications of flouting the Appeal Court judgement which discharged and acquitted the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Campbell, in a tweet, noted that Nigeria misfired by embarking on the extra ordinary rendition of the Kanu from Kenya last year, cautioning that the country cannot afford any more “mishandling” of the matter.

According to the former US envoy, the safety and security of the nation depend largely on how the carefully the nation address the matter.

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Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, while recalling the Campbell tweet, said in a statement that “Nigeria’s disobedience of a 2018 decision of a continental tribunal on Kanu was the first ‘mishandling.’

Ejimakor said that Nigeria should not set bad precedent as a country of lawlessness by not complying with the order of a court of competent jurisdiction concerning Kanu’s release.

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His statement read in part:”The extraordinary rendition was the second. Putting Mazi on trial was the third. Disobeying the United Nations was the fourth. And the likelihood of disobeying the judgment of the Court of Appeal will be the fifth.”

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