Punitive action against Justice John Tosho and Justice Binta Nyako, the Chief Judges of the Federal High Court, has been demanded by the family of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Kanu’s case was reportedly moved to a another judge in accordance with Nyako’s recusal through Chief Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun.
Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu’s attorney, issued a statement on Sunday in which the family of the IPOB leader expressed disappointment that the Chief Justice had to step in in order for Justices Tosho and Nyako to follow the court’s ruling.
The statement read, “While we applaud the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria’s prompt action to ensure that the ten-year sham trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is properly assigned to a competent judge free from bias or one who openly and shamelessly appeals to tribal sentiments or has the propensity to give in to executive manipulation, we find it shocking that it took the cooperation of the most senior judicial officer in Nigeria as well as the conscious public for Binta Nyako to follow her own order of recusal,” the statement stated.
According to them, Tosho and Nyako should face consequences for their purported disobedience of court orders.
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, and the sitting judge who issued the recusal order, Binta Nyako, should both face consequences for plunging the court into discredit in any rational nation that values upholding the rule of law. How strange is it that a judge would openly disregard a court order? According to the statement, “a chief judge who attempted to invalidate a legitimate court order through a phantom memo (written note) and a presiding judge who flagrantly disregarded the order she enrolled in her own court have no business being on the bench.”
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Additionally, Kanu’s family stated that their son’s trial would reveal judicial corruption.
“The world will witness the Nigerian judiciary’s judicious selective justice when this sham trial concludes, but this matter is just getting started.” “The harm that the Nigerian judiciary is about to endure is unthinkable and will never be forgotten by the public,” it continued.
