{"id":8302,"date":"2025-11-20T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:08:27","slug":"terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu will appeal conviction &#8211; Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/images5-7-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/images5-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/images5-7.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By James<br \/>\nKindly share:<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the counsels of Nnamdi Kanu, has said the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, will appeal his conviction and sentencing to life improvement over terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Ejiofor addressed newsmen at the Federal High Court  after Justice James Omotosho&#8217;s Tuesday ruling and insisted that the judgement was flawed. <\/p>\n<p>The lawyer contended that the judge erred in convicting a man for mere spoken words. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of precedent is being laid here? We are heading to the Court of Appeal,\u201d Ejiofor, who was at the court as a consultant, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court of Appeal is the only court in this country, or the next court in this country that sits as a jury. We are going to approach justices there to check out what happened in court today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are pretty sure the justices will agree with us that today was the symbol of the travesty of justice that everybody has been suspecting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Court of Appeal disagrees with us, we head to the Supreme Court. Nnamdi Kanu is not going to stand convicted. He\u2019s going to get overturned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the only day I have witnessed a man being convicted for mere pronouncements, just for what he said from his mouth, not what he did with his own hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict is not consistent with the evidence laid before the court. The sentence is overbroad, cruel and unusual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you convict a man for making a mere broadcast from a location that was never named and he never tied that broadcast to any single incident of violence, or even someone slapping someone, not to talk of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Kindly share: Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the counsels of Nnamdi Kanu, has said the leader of the Indigenous&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1700,59],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ifeanyi-ejiofor","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu will appeal conviction - Counsel - Panorama News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu will appeal conviction - Counsel - Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By James Kindly share: Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the counsels of Nnamdi Kanu, has said the leader of the Indigenous&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T20:08:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/images5-7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"324\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/terrorism-nnamdi-kanu-will-appeal-conviction-counsel\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d\"},\"headline\":\"Terrorism: Nnamdi Kanu will appeal conviction &#8211; 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