{"id":77213,"date":"2025-10-23T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77213"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:06:54","slug":"ex-agf-kanu-agabi-withdraws-as-nnamdi-kanus-lead-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/ex-agf-kanu-agabi-withdraws-as-nnamdi-kanus-lead-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-AGF Kanu Agabi Withdraws as Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s Lead Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Kanu Agabi (SAN), on Thursday withdrew as lead counsel in the terrorism trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), before the Federal High Court, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Agabi told the court that he and other senior lawyers had stepped down after Kanu opted to represent himself. \u201cThe defendant has decided to take back the case from us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu confirmed the decision, telling Justice James Omotosho he would handle his defence for now and declined the judge\u2019s offer to assign him a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>The IPOB leader, facing a seven-count terrorism charge, later made an oral submission challenging the court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Omotosho had earlier granted Kanu six days, beginning October 23, to open and close his defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Kanu Agabi (SAN), on Thursday withdrew as lead counsel in the terrorism trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), before the Federal High Court, Abuja. Agabi told the court that he and other senior lawyers had stepped down after Kanu opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77213","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77228,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77213\/revisions\/77228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}