After Alex Otti finishes his 2nd tenure in Abia state, please can he come contest for Governor of Anambra state?? I’m on my knees😩
We need someone to cleanse the atrocious governance of Soludo.
ANNIHILATING EMEKA UGWUONYE'S DRIVEL
June 7, 2026
FG’S CROSS-APPEAL DEMANDING DEATH FOR MAZI NNAMDI KANU IS A JURISDICTIONAL SUICIDE BOMB — NOT A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
The Federal Government and its propaganda agents are desperately pushing the lie that their Cross-Appeal demanding the death penalty for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu means the conviction is ironclad and the Court of Appeal (CoA) must simply affirm it and vary the sentence to death. This is pure falsehood and must be eviscerated with the raw force of the law and the FG’s own words.
The job of the Court of Appeal is NOT to "rectify" or cure an absence of jurisdiction in the lower Court. Its sacred duty is to validate or nullify the proceedings/judgment based on the law — nothing more.
The Fulcrum: FG’s Own Damning Admission
In their Cross-Appeal (Notice of Cross-Appeal, Grounds of Appeal, page 1363), the Federal Government explicitly pleads:
“The learned trial Judge acted without jurisdiction when he imposed a sentence of life imprisonment…”
They further assert that the offences carry a mandatory sentence under Section 1(2)(H) of the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act, 2013, with zero discretion vested in Hon. Justice J.K. Omotosho, rendering the life sentence illegal, null, void, and liable to be set aside ex debito justitiae.
This is not clever advocacy. This is legal suicide — a binding admission against interest made by the prosecution itself.
Core Principle: Nullity, Not Rectification (Madukolu v. Nkemdilim)
Absence of jurisdiction is fatal and extrinsic to the adjudication. Proceedings conducted without jurisdiction are a nullity ab initio — no matter how well conducted, how brilliant the judgment, or how fair the hearing appeared. The defect cannot be cured or rectified on appeal.
The Court of Appeal (and Supreme Court) does not have the power to breathe life into a fundamentally incompetent proceeding by "fixing" the jurisdictional defect. Instead:
It declares the proceedings/judgment a nullity.
It sets aside the entire decision (conviction and sentence).
It strikes out the matter or makes consequential orders consistent with nullity.
This is the immortal principle in Madukolu v. Nkemdilim (1962): Any defect in competence renders proceedings a nullity. Appellate courts have no jurisdiction to entertain an appeal on the merits if the lower court lacked jurisdiction — the entire process is void. Once the CoA determines lack of jurisdiction below, its role ends with nullification. It does not "rectify," amend, or substitute a valid process where none existed.
Application to the Cross-Appeal: Total Annihilation
The FG’s own words — “acted without jurisdiction” — are the fulcrum that destroys their case. The Cross-Appeal is distinct, yet its poisonous concession infects the entire judgment. A Court that lacked power to impose life imprisonment (as FG admits) equally lacked power to convict. The adjudicative continuum is indivisible.
The CoA cannot use this jurisdictionally defective sentencing process to impose death or validate life imprisonment. It must strike down the sentencing exercise — and by extension, the conviction — as a nullity. The FG cannot approbate and reprobate. They cannot declare the trial Court incompetent while begging the CoA to hang Mazi Nnamdi Kanu using that same void process.
This self-inflicted catastrophe powerfully reinforces every ground in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s substantive Brief: jurisdictional collapse, fair hearing violations, corpus delicti failure, and constitutional nullity.
The Court of Appeal does not sit as a repair shop for defective trials. It sits to enforce constitutional and statutory limits on judicial power. Where jurisdiction was absent — as the FG itself now admits — the only honest outcome is nullification, leading to the quashing of the conviction and sentence in their entirety.
56yrs old man is "that guy" it's one of the major reasons most Nigerians don't serious.
You people take him as "that young guy is bluffing"
Now, all his words have turned prophetic to Nigerians.
Nnamdi Kanu should be freed. Everything that guy said came to pass. I’m not his fan, but his paranoia is justified. Holding him at this point is just a witch-hunt. Uniting him with his family & closing the chapter is the sensible thing to do.
Tinubu in his days as a student.
Math set was free
Note books were free
Textbooks were free
School fees free
Food was free
School uniform free
Sandals free.
These students are celebrating disgrace and decay in the education system in Nigeria.
That was why in your generation you couldn't help Portugal win Euro until Ronaldo came to lead the same Portugal to glory.
Sorry, Deco when you feel Barcelona is more important than Portugal.