The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has provided insight into the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
NATIONAL POST had reported Justice James Omotosho, in a ruling on Friday, dismissed the no case submission made by Kanu.
The judge, while delivering ruling on Friday, held that the Department of State Services, DSS, established a prima facie case against Kanu, adding that he has questions to answer in the terrorism charge preferred against him.
Commenting on the ruling, Kanu's Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, said the development is not a guilty pronouncement
He said the ruling is a call for the IPOB leader to "mount his own defense."
Ejimakor said: "Well, the ruling simply requires Nnamdi Kanu, the defendant to enter his defense, it's not a pronouncement of guilt or not guilty, so that is why it's called a no-case submission. So the judgment, the ruling, that there is a prima facie evidence, that needs to be explained.
"So in common parlance, it calls on him to come and mount his own defense.
"But there is the other aspect of the ruling that concerned extraordinary rendition, that very one is one that compounded us because the extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu is so open and notorious."
