{"id":6946,"date":"2023-12-14T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/justicell-prevail-ejimakor-speaks-as-supreme-court-decides-nnamdi-kanus-fate-friday\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:04:06","slug":"justicell-prevail-ejimakor-speaks-as-supreme-court-decides-nnamdi-kanus-fate-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/justicell-prevail-ejimakor-speaks-as-supreme-court-decides-nnamdi-kanus-fate-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Justice\u2019ll prevail\u2019 \u2013 Ejimakor speaks as Supreme Court decides Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s fate Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed optimism that justice will prevail at the Supreme Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ejimakor disclosed this after his routine meeting with Kanu at the Department of State Services facility in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Ejimakor wrote: \u201cUPDATE: Today, my dedicated colleagues Barr Mandela, Barr Nnaemeka, and Prince Emmanuel (FineBoy) met with Onyendu #MNK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the many topical issues discussed, December 15th (tomorrow) stood out as preeminent. MNK hopes that come tomorrow, justice shall prevail against injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court will deliver judgement on the appeal by the Federal Government against Kanu\u2019s discharge by the Appeal Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court will also rule on the cross-appeal of Kanu\u2019s lawyers against the stay of the execution of the discharge.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu has been incarcerated since 2021, after he was arrested and subjected to extraordinary rendition to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Appeal Court had discharged and acquitted him but the Nigerian government has continued to keep him in \u201csolitary confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Justice\u2019ll prevail\u2019 \u2013 Ejimakor speaks as Supreme Court decides Nnamdi Kanu\u2019s fate Friday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed optimism that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4879,15,1590,1387],"tags":[135,4880,1592,180,1595,1169],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ejimakor","category-news","category-nnamdi-kanu","category-supreme-court","tag-court","tag-ejimakor","tag-kanu","tag-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-supreme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946","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=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}