The lawyer of Nnamdi Kanu,
director of Radio Biafra, Vincent Obetta has denied reports that his client
apologized to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Report had surfaced
that Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) apologised
to President Buhari for referring to him as a terrorist,
evil and a paedophile in his radio broadcasts.
The apology was
reportedly contained in a statement which the 48-year-old pro-Biafran agitator
made available to the DSS on October 23.
Speaking on Wednesday, December 30, Obetta
said it was impossible that Kanu tendered an apology, The Cable reports.
According to him, the
report was an indication that the government was trying everything possible to
destroy Kanu’s defence.
“The government is using every instrument to puncture what we are
doing,” he said.
Kanu has been in the
Department of State Services (DSS) detention over charges of treason and other
ancillary offence.
A chief magistrate
court sitting in Wuse zone 2, Abuja, had earlier discharged him on all counts
of criminal conspiracy and ownership of an unlawful society brought against him
by the federal government.
During his arraignment
at a Federal High Court in Abuja on December 23, Kanu
had made an objection, saying he had no confidence in the court to
give an order and have the authorities follow it, asking the court to leave him
in detention.
In his ruling,
Justice Ahmed Mohammed said he sees nothing wrong in the defendant’s objection.
He also excused himself from the case against Kanu.
Source: Naij
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