A Federal High Court in Abuja will on February 10 rule on a motion by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to quash the charge against him.
After listening to arguments for and against the motion on Thursday, Justice Binta Nyako chose the date for final verdict.
Kanu and three of his associates – Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi – are being tried before the court on an 11-count charge.
They have been charged with managing unlawful organisation, possession of firearms, felony, unlawful importation and terrorism.
Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, had asked the court to drop the six counts in the charge against his client.
He said: “The six counts preferred against the first defendant/applicant (Kanu) as shown in counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the substantive charge, and the proof of evidence attached thereto, have not disclosed any prima facie case against the first defendant/applicant, such as to warrant setting the substantive charge down for trial against the first defendant/applicant.”
Ejiofor said the counts were “smokescreen charges, basically concocted to ensure that the first defendant/applicant is perpetually held in custody.”
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