A Note of Caution To All Sides
As calls for the release of Nnamdi Kanu build up into a frenzied cacophony and as various political merchants seek to seize the moment by plugging into the rowdy marketplace of Igbo Bloc Vote in 2027, it has become necessary to put forward this Clarification and Note of Caution to illuminate the issues propelling that Clamour and therefore guide those being mobilized by political merchants for a March on Aso Villa October 20, 2025.
Let it be noted that the offence for which Nnamdi Kanu is being held and tried is Terror as contemplated by Nigeria’s Terror Prohibition and Prohibition Act (TPPA) 2022.
Let it also be noted that the main reason offered by the Protest March Organizers is the continuing incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu even when the Highest Courts in Nigeria have Discharged and Acquitted him, and Ordered his release.
First, to the Question of Acquittal and Order to Release.
Let it be known that Acquittal happens only after Trial of Charges.
From 2015 to date, no trial has taken place regarding the charges brought against Nnamdi Kanu, whether for the 2015 round of charges or the charges emanating from the period after September 2017 when the accused and his IPOB embarked on armed insurrection culminating in the 2020 launch of the ESN which soon degenerated into Unknown Gunmen and Autopilot, setting up terror camps, kidnapping for ransom, killing, organ harvest, and sailed all the way to cannibalism.
LET IT BE NOTED THAT since his June 2021 apprehension in Kenya and repatriation to Nigeria, No Court In Nigeria has ordered the Acquittal or Release of Nnamdi Kanu.
There are two sets of charges. Those from the 2015 round of Arrest and Arraignment AND those from the 2021 apprehension in Kenya covering for offenses emanating from the post-2017 period when armed insurrection had been introduced by IPOB by way of its ESN and other Violent Activities including the enforcement of a Weekly Sit-At-Home, for which the accused had not been arraigned up to the time the accused went to the Court of Appeal to challenge the basis of Jurisdiction of the Trial Court (which already struck out some charges) to continue the Trial.
The Defense Team contended that the Extraordinary Renditioning of the accused vitiated the jurisdiction of the Trial Court.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the Defence Team only regarding the Charges from the 2015 Period and therefore went on to strike out the balance of the Charges still subsisting from the 2015 period but neither Acquitted nor Ordered the Release of the Accused as the Prosecution had notified the Court of Appeal of the charges it had already filed against the accused for offenses emanating from the Post-2017 period (which though already filed at the Trial Court, had not yet come to Arraignment at the time the Court of Appeal was dealing with the Defence application relating to the residue of the charges from the 2015 period.
The Prosecution opposed the attempt to secure the release of the accused on the ground of the aforementioned Discharge of the residue of charges from the 2015 Period by the Court of Appeal.
The Defence approached the Supreme Court to try to enforce the Release of the Accused, but the Prosecution opposed that appeal, presenting to the Supreme Court evidence of the pending Charges it already filed at the Trial Court for offenses emanating from the Post-2017 period.
The Supreme Court in its Ruling, Ordered that the matter be transmitted back to the Federal High Court for the Trial of the Seven Counts of Charges emanating from the Post-2017 period as filed by the Prosecution even whilst agreeing with the Defence that the accused did not jump bail in 2017 to truncate trial for the 2015 charges.
Contrary to the contention of the Defence Team, this decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria makes it clear that the Extraordinary Renditioning of the Accused from Kenya did NOT remove the Jurisdiction of the Federal High Court from proceeding with Trial for the offenses emanating from the post-2017 Period.
Bottomline therefore is that contrary to the widely circulated claim on the issue, NEITHER the Court of Appeal NOR the Supreme Court of Nigeria Acquitted or Ordered the Release of Nnamdi Kanu.
This means that those who plan to protest the continued incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu on the ground that the Appellate Courts in Nigeria have discharged and acquitted and have ordered his release, are in error and so their planned Protest of October 20, 2025 could be construed to be a protest in support of the Terror Actions for which Nnamdi Kanu is being Prosecuted.
Those who assert that the appellate Courts in Nigeria have discharged, acquitted and ordered the release of Nnamdi Kanu are either dishonest (particularly Lawyers of the Accused) or ignorant, being caught up in the web of falsehoods and obfuscation by Nnamdi Kanu’s Legal Defence Team as well as the IPOB loud and ignorance-driven propaganda machinery on social media.
I had cause to publicly rebuke, by way of a widely publicized Rejoinder to Mike Ozekhome (SAN), for lending his name and reputation to the deceit of the public that the Appellate Courts in Nigeria, particularly the Supreme Court, ordered the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
Ozekhome subsequently withdrew from the case shortly after that rebuke, in the immediate aftermath of the December 2023 Supreme Court Ruling that Ordered the transmission of the matter back to the Federal High Court for Trial.
Below is a publication that contains the said rebuke and necessary clarifications that may guide those who wish to understand what is truly going on in the Abuja Trial of Nnamdi Kanu beyond internet noise and unintelligent propaganda.
https://atlanticpostng.com/notes-of-clarification-on-nnamdi-kanus-february-10-courtroom-drama/
Let this Note of Caution and accompanying Clarifications be circulated widely not only to organizers and participants in the proposed March of October 20, 2025 but also to all who have been clamoring for the release of Nnamdi Kanu on the totally false premises that the Highest Courts in Nigeria have acquitted him and ordered his release.
For the avoidance of doubt, let it be known that more than any other factor, what Nigeria is dealing with in the Trial of Nnamdi Kanu is the decades of Nigeria’s deficit of honour in its dealings with the Igbo-East. The volatile crises erupting on all sides from this one Trial should persuade all stakeholders including Government, that the time has arrived for honestly engaging the intricately tied trinity of the Igbo Question In Nigeria, the Biafra Question and the Nigeria Question which landed Nigeria in the bind of a Death-Dispensing Unitary Constitutional-Order which must now be resolved by halting preparations for 2027 National Elections in order to commence a time-bound period of Transitioning for Constitutional Reconstruction.
This Constitutional Reconstruction of Nigeria is the most viable way of ending the War Nigeria launched against itself since 6th of July in 1967 as it will reset the unworkable Union and stabilize this West African space.
Let it also be stated that anyone who is genuinely concerned about the Igbo plight in Nigeria (as being dramatized by the Trial of Nnamdi Kanu) must get involved in the push to ease out the Master-Servant Unitary Constitution of Nigeria, imposed as Victory Charter from the War of 1967-1970 and by which the Igbo and the Igbo-East (Dot-In-Circle) has been Politically Subjugated, Economically Strangulated, Comprehensively Expropriated and Permanently Excluded from the management of Nigeria particularly in the Security and Economic spheres.
Such persons, if they are members of the political class, and any Politician who is gearing up to contest must now join the Campaign to shelve further National Elections in 2027 under the 1999 Constitution and for the initiation of an immediate Transitioning Process to undertake the Constitutional Reconstruction of the Distressed Federation.
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From this article we learn how Nnamdi Kanu's legal team and IPOB/ESN have been deceiving Nigerians and the world on this matter.
Therefore, to put it very plainly:
Nnamdi Kanu was facing TWO sets of charges.
1)- Charges from 2015 period.
2)- Charges from 2017 and after.
The Charges from 2015 period were struck off, that is, cancelled. And, taking him from Kenya like was done was wrong for these charges.
Charges from 2017 and after. These are the Terrorism charges and Kanu still has to face them. The Supreme Court said that because they are Terrorism offences, it is acceptable the way he was seized from Kenya.