BIAFRA REFERENDUM BY Abdulkadir Erkahraman...READ MORE!!!

BIAFRA REFERENDUM As Biafra referendum is the most discussed topic at the moment at the moment in Nigeria and around the world, it will only serve the interest of justice if Justice Binta Nyako of Nigeria Federal High Court presiding over the case of frivolous charges of treasonable felony preferred on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other defendants by Nigeria government, to strike out the case completely and discharge the detainees on court sitting of 11/7/2017 because it has completely become obvious that the matter between Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Nigeria government is not a legal matter any more but political matter one.

It is good for Justice Binta Nyako to understand that further waste of time on case bothering on issue which the Federal government of Nigeria has being having deliberations, consultations and persuasions on it will continue to make caricature of Nigeria judiciary and cause more damages to its reputation. How can court still be conducting hearing on the issue which prominent Nigerians such as the Acting-president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Arewa Chieftain Prof Ango Abdullahi and many others have made one extra-judicial statement or the other upon since last court sitting on April? Considering the fact that the issue of Biafra restoration struggle which made Nigeria government to arrest and arraigned Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his other three followers namely Benjamin Mmadubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe, but has failed to open trial on them other than the obnoxious prayer of the prosecutor for grant of secret trial, it is important for Justice Binta Nyako to strike out the case come July 11th and allow the government to continue to follow the political process which Prof Yemi Osinbajo has initiated in the Biafra agitation. It is a disgrace for Federal High Court to continue wasting precious time for other court businesses on the political matters which political process has been initiated by the appropriate authority concerned. Justice Binta Nyako should know that the case between Nnamdi Kanu and Nigeria government is a matter of political engagement and not a matter of legal tussle as that is why the trial can't be opened for nearly 21 Calendar months now. It is upon this ground that I consider it necessary to advise that the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Binta Nyako should by the political engagement, consultations and persuasions which Acting-president has initiated, should strike out the case completely and discharge the detainees and pave the way for the political engagement to continue. It is important for Justice Binta Nyako to see that Nigeria government has even shifted ground by showing interest in restructuring Nigeria as a way of pacifying the Biafra people who vehemently insisted on Biafra restoration, to stop agitating for Biafra referendum. If Nigeria government has declared systematic interest in restructuring Nigeria as a way of shifting ground on present argument between Biafra referendum (from Biafrans) and Restructure Nigeria (from Nigeria government), is it not enough reason for Federal High Court to discharge the detainees and strike out the case completely and have the political argument and process to continue? Presently, Biafra detainees as mentioned above are still there in Kuje prison on the remand verdict of the court. It is pure injustice which is denting the image of the court to be holding these detainees on a case that is no longer going legal but going political process. It is on record that Prof Yemi Osinbajo has engaged Igbo leaders of thought, Igbo political leaders, Igbo traditional leaders and Ohaneze Ndigbo for the issue of Biafra restoration and current demand for referendum, so the court should know that Nigeria government has meddled too much politically on the issue of the case in such a way that it is capable of influencing the discretion of the court or at least put question mark on integrity of the court. According to the judicial procedures, whenever a matter before a court begins to go political process as Biafra restoration case between Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Nigeria government has started going at the moment, it will serve the best interest of justice for the court to discharge the case as it has already become politically meddled with and allow full blown political process to continue. A court cannot be handling a case and at the same time the handles same issue in political process as that is bound to undermine the authority of the court and will render the verdict of the court useles when passed as the political process has the upper hand already. In conclusion, as we are approaching the court sitting of July 11 or 12, Federal High Court presided over by Justice Binta Nyako will be adjudged as a court of justice should the court heed this advice and strike out the case completely and discharge the detainees and pave the way for the political engagement to continue until all the matters are settled. I rest my case!