{"id":19073,"date":"2024-02-26T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nnamdi-kanu-engages-new-legal-team-for-defense-in-terrorism-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:03:16","slug":"nnamdi-kanu-engages-new-legal-team-for-defense-in-terrorism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nnamdi-kanu-engages-new-legal-team-for-defense-in-terrorism-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnamdi Kanu engages new legal team for defense in terrorism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu charged with terrorism offences by the Federal Government has engaged new lawyers for his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu\u2019s trial is expected to resume at the Federal High Court in Abuja today.<\/p>\n<p>However, DAILY POST gathered that a new team of lawyers to be led by Alloy Ejimakor will take over Kanu\u2019s defense in the 7-count charges.<\/p>\n<p>No reason has been adduced to the change in the legal team being led before now by Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN and Ifeanyi Ejiofor.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the court already has lawyers and sympathizers of the Biafra agitator present.<\/p>\n<p>Details later.<\/p>\n<p>Nnamdi Kanu engages new legal team for defense in terrorism charges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu charged with terrorism offences by the Federal Government has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1590],"tags":[1592,180,1595],"class_list":["post-19073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nnamdi-kanu","tag-kanu","tag-news","tag-nnamdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}