Legal consultant to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Aloy Ejimakor, has disclosed that the trial of the Biafra agitator was “tough”.
Ejimakor, who was Kanu’s lead counsel for one year, disclosed this while recounting his stint as the head of the IPOB leader’s legal team.
Kanu was rearrested in Kenya in 2021 and subjected to extraordinary rendition back to Nigeria.
On November 20, 2025, an Abuja Federal High Court handed Kanu life imprisonment after finding him guilty of terrorism charges.
Following his conviction, Kanu was moved to the Sokoto Custodial Centre to serve his sentence.
In a video he posted on X, Ejimakor said: “My stint as lead Counsel was very fulfilling and I cannot complain, I trained to handle cases even when the cases are this tough such as the case of Nnamdi Kanu.
“You will recall that I assumed the role of lead Counsel in February 2024 and the first step I took when that happened was to file for the restoration of his bail.
“I had anchored this application on what the Supreme Court had said when they limited this case back to the High Court.
“The Supreme Court had said it pump and plain, clearly in a concurring judgment that the revocation of his bail was unfair and it shouldn’t have happened. And the revocation smacked off suspicion of partiality on the part of the High Court that revoked it.
“The Supreme Court also cited with approval the judgment I had obtained in January of 2022 from the High Court of Abia State which condemned the invasion of Kanu’s house in September 2017 and awarded him N1 billion and the High Court blamed that invasion for being a he sole reason for Kanu had to leave Nigeria and failed to appear at his trial.”
Ejimakor noted that the Supreme Court blamed the government “squarely and totally for what the government termed jumping of bail on the part of Kanu”.
“So the Supreme Court said he didn’t jump bail.”
He added: “So for those reasons, a High court should have taken the sound decision of revoking his bail, so I proceeded to file but it was denied and I appealed the denial to the Court of Appeal.”
Ejimakor also disclosed another step he took to test if the judiciary was going to be fair to Kanu.
“The second step I took to test whether the field of play was going to be fair was to challenge the jurisdiction of the court to subject him to trial. They were judicial issues inherent in his case,” he added.
