The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has shifted hearing to March 7, 2023 in an application filed by the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu seeking to be joined in the appeal challenging the proscription of the group by the Federal Government.
Kanu had on September 5, 2022 filed the joinder application as an interested party in the January 18, 2018 judgment of the Federal High Court in suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/871/2017, that proscribed IPOB.
Although hearing in the application was scheduled for Wednesday, the appellate court did not sit and the matter was shifted to March 7, 2023.
Lead counsel to Kanu, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume , SAN, who filed the processes said his client was appealing the judgment of the trial court which was rendered without hearing from him.
Kanu who expressed dissatisfaction with the judgment has proposed to challenged