The Supreme Court, on Thursday, okayed the request by the Federal Government to file additional nine grounds in its appeal on the case of the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
The ruling followed an application moved by FG’s counsel, Tijani Gadzali (SAN).
Gadzali equally sought an adjournment to respond to Kanu’s request to be transferred from the detention facility of the Department of State Services, to the Kuje Custodial Centre.
The five-man panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice John Okoro, okayed the granted leave to the FG to include additional nine grounds as part of its amended notice of appeal dated October 28, 2022.
Counsel for Kanu, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), informed the court about a couple of motions filed by his client, including one in which he prayed to be relocated to Kuje prison from the DSS facility.
Ozekhome told the court that Kanu was seriously ill and required proper medical attention, which, he believed, his client could access at the Kuje prison.
He added that his client had filed an application praying to be released on bail, pending the conclusion of the hearing of the appeal.
He, thereafter, applied for an accelerated hearing of all the pending applications as well as the substantive appeal.
Consequently, the Supreme Court adjourned the case till May 11 for definite hearing.
