The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has said the rearrests of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was in accordance with the legal process.
The Special Assistant to the Minister on Media and Public Relations, Jibrilu Gwandu stated that the IPOB leader was represented by a lawyer throughout the judicial process that led to the grant of his earlier bail.
Gwandu said “Bench warrant was lawfully and judiciously procured through judicial process by a competent court of law, whose bail conditions he breached with impunity. Nnamdi Kanu has been represented by a counsel all through the judicial process and was never denied a right of choice of counsel or recourse to one, even when he symbolises a proscribed association (IPOB) in law and, in fact, his association has been legally proscribed. So, there was no illegality in the entire process. The legality or otherwise of Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest was not discussed in the meeting. I sent you a press release on the issues that were discussed. The meeting was scheduled long before the arrest,”