Justice Nyako granted me bail as part of ploy to assassinate me –Nnamdi Kanu

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has claimed that the reason Justice Binta Nyako granted him bail in 2017 was to help the Federal Government actualised its alleged plot to assassinate him.

He said because he survived the assassination plot, that Nyako, an Abuja Federal High Court judge, has been angry.

He wrote on his Twitter handle: “It’s now obvious Justice Binta Nyako only agreed to grant me bail as part of an elaborate ploy with the Nigerian govt to set me up for assassination.

“Her failure to investigate the military invasion of my home is clear confirmation that she is angry I survived the attack.”

Kanu’s claims followed the revoking of his bail, and an order for his arrest, issued last week by Justice Nyako’s.

Nyako, who had on April 25, 2017 granted Kanu bail after the IPOB leader spent a year and seven months in detention, had revoked his bail and ordered for his re-arrest over failure to attend trial ever since he was granted bail.

Kanu’s lawyer had claimed that his client refusal to appear in court was due to invasion of his home by Nigeria soldiers on September 14, but the judge has constantly debunked the excuse.

Kanu had disappeared after the said invasion. He only resurfaced last year in Israel before he later traveled to the United Kingdom, where is his also a citizen and still residing in currently.

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The Federal Government had arraigned the IPOB leader alongside three others on charges bothering on treasonable offences.

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