{"id":61849,"date":"2025-02-28T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61849"},"modified":"2025-02-28T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T01:26:31","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-petitions-cjn-demands-case-reassignment-over-alleged-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/28\/nnamdi-kanu-petitions-cjn-demands-case-reassignment-over-alleged-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu Petitions CJN, Demands Case Reassignment Over Alleged Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has formally petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, requesting the reassignment of his ongoing trial to a new judge.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu\u2019s legal team, led by Aloy Ejimakor, argues that Justice Binta Nyako, who currently presides over the case, had previously recused herself following allegations of bias.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, she remains in charge of proceedings, a move Kanu&#8217;s lawyers say threatens judicial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Ejimakor insists that once a judge voluntarily steps down from a case, they are legally disqualified from further involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision of recusal is equivalent to a ruling on jurisdiction\u2014it cannot be arbitrarily reversed,\u201d he asserted in the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Warning against potential public distrust in the judiciary, Ejimakor urged the CJN to intervene swiftly, ensuring a fair trial by assigning the case to another judge in Abuja or relocating it to a court in the South-East.<\/p>\n<p>The legal battle surrounding Kanu, who faces terrorism-related charges brought by the Federal Government, continues to stir legal and political tensions across Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has formally petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, requesting the reassignment of his ongoing trial to a new judge. Kanu\u2019s legal team, led by Aloy Ejimakor, argues that Justice Binta Nyako, who currently presides over the case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61851,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849\/revisions\/61851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}