A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Paul Ananaba, has faulted the refusal of the Supreme Court to grant bail to Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) News About Nigeria reports.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria made this known in an interview on Channels Television on Friday.
According to him, the Supreme Court had the power to grant the IPOB leader bail, but the Federal Government challenged the judgement with the Supreme Court on Friday, ruling that Kanu should face trial.
He noted that Nigerians had harboured the hope that Nnamdi Kanu would be released, maintaining that the apex court had the power to do so if they had wanted to, but they refused.
He further noted that Nigerians, including himself, had expected the Supreme Court to grant the IPOB leader bail on certain conditions, especially after the court found out that the method of arrest that was carried out on Nnamdi Kanu was not approved by the Supreme Court, including the invasion of Kanu’s residence.
He also maintained that when the Supreme Court had found that that bail was wrongly revoked, the court would have made a consequential order in that order that the bail be restored.
Ananaba, however, urged Nigerians to respect the decisions of the Supreme Court and accept whatever its judgement is.
Recall that the Supreme Court, in its judgement, delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, stated that the Court of Appeal was wrong to rule that Kanu could not be retried based on the government’s alleged illegality during his arrest and the invasion of his home.
Kanu has, however, been in detention since June 2021, facing charges including treasonable felony and terrorism.
