A consortium of lawyers representing the IPOB leader on Saturday questioned the legal basis upon which he was convicted.
Chidera questioned the legal basis the court relied on to convict Kanu on November 20, 2025, arguing that the judge relied on a repealed terrorism law.
He said the central question was: “Under which constitutionally cognisable law did Justice James Omotosho convict Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on November 20, 2025?”
According to him, the issue revolves around distinction between Sections 36(8) and 36(12) of the 1999 Constitution.
Chidera argued that while Section 36(8) concerns law applicable to conduct at the time an alleged offence was committed, Section 36(12) concerns written law defining the offence and prescribing its punishment at the time of conviction.
“There are two constitutional questions. They are different. They are not interchangeable,” he said.
“Section 36(8) asks: What law governed the conduct when it happened? Section 36(12) asks: What written law defines the offence and prescribes the penalty now — at the moment of conviction?”
The British criminals who SELFISHLY created Nigeria illegally also uses Nigeria government for colonization of Biafrans.
#FreeMaziNnamdiKanu#BiafraReferendum
NIGERIA IS NOT INDEPENDENT — AND IT IS TIME TO END THE PRETENCE
Letters from Stockholm | By Kio Amachree
It is time for Nigerians to finally break loose from the political influence of London.
And President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the latest and most disturbing reason why.
Mr Tinubu, Nigerians are suffering under your government, yet London appears remarkably comfortable with you.
That alone should make Nigerians ask questions.
Then, on Nigeria’s so-called Independence Day, The Economist of London published an article under the extraordinary headline: “Nigerians dislike their president, but may re-elect him anyway.” Its argument was that Tinubu could survive his unpopularity through incumbency, political machinery, money, opposition division and desperately low voter participation. (People&Politics)
Read that again.
The Nigerian people can dislike their president, suffer under his government, and somehow the political machinery can still return him to Aso Rock.
That is precisely why Nigerians must stop treating October 1 as some sacred proof that colonialism ended.
WE NIGERIANS ARE NOT TRULY INDEPENDENT.
We were handed a flag, an anthem and constitutional independence in 1960.
But genuine independence means control over your political destiny, your economy, your resources, your security and your institutions.
And after sixty-six years, I believe the annual Nigerian celebration of independence must look like a joke from Whitehall.
Because what exactly are we celebrating?
Britain created the Nigerian colonial arrangement.
Nigerians did not sit around a table as equal sovereign peoples and design the country we inherited.
Britain amalgamated it.
Britain administered it.
Britain extracted wealth from it.
And Britain departed formally in 1960 while retaining enormous historical, commercial, diplomatic and strategic interests in what it had created.
Now look at President Tinubu.
In March Britain gave him the first inward State Visit by a Nigerian president in 37 years. King Charles hosted him at Windsor Castle. Royal salutes were fired. The British establishment rolled out the ceremonial red carpet. (The Royal Family)
Then came the business.
Downing Street announced deeper cooperation with Tinubu’s government covering trade, infrastructure, security, migration and the redevelopment of Nigerian ports. (https://t.co/EJ7qd6DGup)
The relationship extends even further.
Britain and Nigeria now cooperate on counterterrorism, defence capability, cyber threats, intelligence and information exchange, Special Operations Forces, maritime security, fraud and illicit finance. Britain’s own communiqué says the two governments are developing a formalised intelligence-sharing mechanism. (https://t.co/EJ7qd6DGup)
Britain has even secured a new arrangement making it easier to return Nigerian visa overstayers, failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders to Nigeria. (https://t.co/EJ7qd6DGup)
So I ask you directly, President Tinubu:
WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LONDON?
And more importantly:
WHO BENEFITS MOST FROM IT?
Do not distract Nigerians with royal carriages, handshakes and photographs at Windsor.
Publish the agreements.
Publish the obligations.
Explain the intelligence arrangements.
Explain the defence relationship.
Explain what Britain receives.
Explain what Nigeria receives.
Because after sixty-six years of supposed independence, Nigerians have every right to know precisely how much influence their former colonial ruler exercises inside their country.
Britain is entitled to pursue British interests.
My complaint is that Nigerian governments have repeatedly failed to pursue Nigerian interests with the same ruthlessness.
And that exploitation has taken many forms across our history: colonial extraction first, followed after independence by profoundly unequal relationships involving capital, natural resources, finance, security and political influence.
Nigeria has supplied enormous wealth to the outside world while millions of Nigerians remain poor.
Something is fundamentally wrong with that arrangement.
And if, sixty-six years after independence, this arrangement still cannot deliver genuine sovereignty and prosperity to Nigerians, then Nigerians have every right to question the arrangement itself.
We did not create colonial Nigeria.
We inherited it.
That does not mean we must preserve it forever.
A country is not sacred merely because British colonial administrators drew its boundaries and handed the resulting state to another generation.
Nigeria must work for Nigerians.
If this federation cannot be transformed into a genuinely sovereign political arrangement freely accepted by its peoples, then Nigerians must have the courage to discuss what comes next.
No subject should be forbidden.
Restructuring.
Federalism.
Devolution.
Resource control.
Constitutional reconstruction.
And ultimately the fundamental question upon which every legitimate state rests:
Do the people themselves consent to the political arrangement under which they are governed?
That is independence.
Not October 1 speeches.
Not military parades.
Not politicians waving green-and-white flags.
Not Nigerian presidents travelling to London to receive royal approval.
SOVEREIGNTY.
President Tinubu, your magnificent reception at Windsor does not give you sovereignty over Nigerians.
The Economist cannot give it to you.
Whitehall cannot give it to you.
Downing Street cannot give it to you.
King Charles cannot give it to you.
Only Nigerians can.
And Nigerians should finally understand something that Britain has understood for centuries:
NATIONS EXIST TO DEFEND THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
Britain defends Britain’s interests.
Nigeria must start defending Nigeria’s.
Otherwise stop calling October 1 Independence Day.
Because independence without genuine sovereignty is merely a ceremony.
Sixty-six years is enough.
Either Nigeria finally becomes genuinely independent — politically, economically, institutionally and psychologically — or Nigerians must have the courage to reconsider an arrangement they had no part in creating.
#LettersFromStockholm #KioAmachree #Nigeria #Tinubu #Whitehall #TheEconomist #Independence #NigerianPolitics #Sovereignty #Britain #Colonialism #Africa #TheKioSolution
GOD'S DESTRUCTIONS UPON BRITAIN AND NIGERIA IS INEVITABLE.
"IF BRITAIN DON'T ALLOW BIAFRA TO GO THEN BRITAIN WILL FALL" ~ MAZI NNAMDI KANU (THE LEADER OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA).
https://t.co/tXdJwPa7Xo
THE DEAL IS DONE. THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CREATED NIGERIA TO COLONIZE BIAFRA HAS SEALED A DEAL FOR SELF-DETERMINATION.
* NO ARREST OR TAGGING OF TERRORIST.
*NO KILLING OF INNOCENT AGITATORS.
GOD WILL CONTINUE DESTROYING NIGERIA UNTIL IT'S DELETED OUTOF THE WORLD MAP.
@MikeArnoldTruth As a victim of "one Nigeria" and her Hate 1999 Constitutional-Ambush designed against the IGBO-BIAFRA, I will NEVER support EVIL (Nigeria) and will continue supporting all peaceful means to dismantle the EVIL (Nigeria) tormenting our lives for a better living
As a victim of "one Nigeria" I will NEVER support EVIL (Nigeria) because I disapprove the Nigeria's 1999 Hate constitution and support the dismantle of Nigeria's FORCED UNITY that caused many death of innocent pple
My vote will only be for #BiafraReferendum
https://t.co/A2SkeLD1oN
This is the same petition calling on Pres. Trump to help guarantee three things, which should be basic human right:
1) Free and fair election in 2027.
2) New constitution of, by and for the people.
3) A binding referendum for self determination for all the nations that make up the contraption called Nigeria.
@AloyEjimakor As far as am the Nigeria delegates that went to the UNGA is a complete waste of taxpayers money, nothing good or reasonable will come out.
GOD'S DESTRUCTIONS UPON BRITAIN AND NIGERIA IS INEVITABLE.
"IF BRITAIN DON'T ALLOW BIAFRA TO GO THEN BRITAIN WILL FALL" ~ MAZI NNAMDI KANU (THE LEADER OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA).
https://t.co/tXdJwP9A7Q
https://t.co/86Flt8freH
NIGERIA'S FORCED UNITY, HARMFUL 1999 MILITARY CONSTITUTION &FULANI TERRORISTS IS MAJOR REASON NIGERIA IS DOOMED TODAY: BIAFRANS ARE JUST TIRED OF ENDLESS PERSECUTION & SUFFERING IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY ... LIFE WITHOUT POSITIVE IMPACT IS NOT WORTH LIVING.
NIGERIA'S FORCED UNITY IS AN ACT OF WILDLIFE; ONE-NIGERIANS AND PROUD-NIGERIANS SHARE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF WILD ANIMALS WHO PREFERRED FORCED UNITY TO A PEACEFUL #BiafraReferendum https://t.co/UWpsVIS3eb
How better could Nigeria be with the extrajudicial-persecution, oppression & the 1999 Nigeria "hate constitution" against Ndi-Igbo Biafra & frustrating Biafrans for a better living, a better government and a better Nation via #Referendum
https://t.co/qIZoyAYztZ