Embattled leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu on Wednesday accused
President Muhammadu Buhari of influencing judges to convict him of treasonable
felony.
Speaking
through his counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor at a media briefing in Abuja, Kanu said
Buhari’s pronouncement on matters relating to Biafra was prejudicial and
capable of forcing the hands of the court to convict him.
Citing
Buhari’s recent comment where he stated that nobody could divide the country,
and in his December 2015 Presidential Media Chat, where he said that Kanu
should not be granted bail because he was a flight risk, Ejiofor explained that
Buhari was inadvertently compelling the court to convict Kanu.
“The pronouncements of the
president are affecting the decisions of the court. We consider the pronouncements
prejudicial. The president should not be making pronouncements that are
indirectly influencing the decision of the judges.”
Buttressing that the embattled
IPOB leader had filed a fundamental rights suit against the Federal Government
at the ECOWAS court over his continued imprisonment, Ejiofor said, “We went to
ECOWAS court because we believe we will be given justice. Only ECOWAS court can
give us justice.”