Nnamdi Kanu Reveals Why He is Being incarcerated

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has revealed why Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has insisted on presiding over his trial, even after she had recused herself from the case. She is obliged by the federal government to convict Nnamdi Kanu to dismiss the ongoing corruption cases against her husband and son.

Mr Kanu spoke on Monday when he appeared in court for his resumed trial that.

“Justice Binta Nyako is using her position for personal gain. Her son and her husband are facing corruption charges. And they (the Nigerian Government) told them (the judge and the court) that if they convict me (they will free the son and the husband).

“They (Nigerian Government) sent her to my case so they can release or smoothen the pathway for the husband and the son,” Mr Kanu said.

Although the IPOB leader did not mention details of the corruption cases or the names of the judge’s husband and son, this newspaper is aware that Murtala Nyako – the judge’s husband and son, Abdulaziz, are being prosecuted by the EFCC over allegations of fraud amounting to N29 billion.

The older Nyako, a retired admiral, was the governor of Adamawa State between 2007 and 2008 and then from 2008 to 2014 when the State House of Assembly impeached him over corruption allegations. The Court of Appeal in 2016 quashed the impeachment but declined to return him as governor, saying his tenure had elapsed.