Justice James Omotosho is the new judge assigned to handle Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s alleged terrorism case.
Justice James Omotosho fixed March 21 after he received the case file from the Chief judge Justice John Tsoho. We gathered also that the Court might have served hearing notices on the parties and that the matter will begin a fresh in line with the order of Supreme Court.
The Chief judge of Federal High Court John Tsoho on Tuesday hinted in a letter dated March 4 and addressed to Kanu’s lead counsel, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, that a new judge will be assigned to handle the matter
The re-assignment followed the demand by Kanu and his team of lawyers for the transfer of the seven-count terrorism charge to another judge, after alleging bias
Mazi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had insisted he would not take plea before Justice Binta Nyako who he claimed had recused self from the case.
Kanu had been on trial for the alleged terrorism offence since 2015., Recall that Justice Ahmed Mohammed (who has been elevated to Appeal Court) and Justice Tsoho (before becoming the CJ) had presided over Kanu’s trial before it was assigned to Justice Nyako, following the defendant’s rejection of the two judges.