Mrs Uchechi Kanu, spouse of the chief of the proscribed Indigenous Folk of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stated the apologies tendered via her husband’s legal professional, Kanu Agabi, SAN, on the Federal Top Courtroom, Abuja, on Friday, are handover effects.
Uchechi stated it was once an important for Agabi, whom she described as “a towering figure” to deal with the courtroom in that means to leisure tensions.
The IPOB chief’s spouse said this in a press observation shared with Sunday PUNCH.
She disclosed that the apologies had been Agabi’s projects to elucidate presen arguments and outbursts witnessed at Justice Binta Nyako’s courtroom, including that the suggest’s choices would facilitate discussion and non violent coexistence.
On the resumed sitting, Agabi apologised to the courtroom to the behalf of the IPOB chief, announcing, “They are now at a place where they must apologise to Justice Binta Nyako, the prosecution team, and his legal team.”
Agabi said that Kanu have been enraged for an extended date, and famous that the assault on Justice Nyako was once unjustified. He additionally apologised to Kanu’s crew, whom Kanu had verbally attacked on the terminating sitting.
The suggest additional expressed remorseful about over Kanu’s feedback directed on the Federal Govt’s suggest, who could also be the chairman of the Frame of Benchers, describing him as a legal professional held in prime regard.
Reacting to the advance, Uchechi stated, “My husband, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, accepted the need for Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN, the new lead counsel, to address the court of Justice James Omotosho on what transpired at Binta Nyako’s court, that shook the foundations of the Nigerian judiciary.”
“Those clarifications had been duly delivered via Important Kanu Agabi, SAN—a elevated determine. Important Agabi, entering into Onyendu’s transient, acted to clean the ruffled feathers in some areas of the bar and bench, brought about via his authentic, anger-fuelled outbursts towards Justice Binta Nyako’s courtroom that resulted in her recusal.
She stated, “Important Kanu Agabi’s stature demanded it; he couldn’t constitute Onyendu with out restoring decorum appropriate to the Abuja bench specifically and the judiciary typically.
“Remarkably, Justice James Omotosho, also apologised to Onyendu for the prolonged delay and mishandling of his trial over the years, acknowledging his ordeal at the hands of the Federal High Court Abuja.”