Tony Nnadi, LNC-NINAS
09 June 2026

As the Propaganda Machinery of IPOB and the charlatans masquerading as Lawyers continue to splash a toxic admixture of ignorance and falsehoods regarding the Appeal filed by the Defence Team of Nnamdi Kanu and the Cross-Appeal filed by the Prosecution Team on behalf of the Federal Government, it has become necessary to provide clarifications to guide all concerned and the general public.

The primary reason for this intervention is to avert the dangerous consequences of allowing the aforementioned IPOB Propaganda and Dishonest Obfuscation of the Defence Lawyers, particularly the largely ill-informed Biafra-Seeking multitudes who would believe the falsehoods and continue to cause mayhem, nuisance and bad blood against the Igbo across Nigeria and Globally. 

Those who do not understand the gravity and consequences for Igbo safety and goodwill, the buffoonery and dishonesty of the charlatans masquerading as Lawyers in the case of the Bloodthirsty Criminal called Nnamdi Kanu may not understand why steps are being taken to push back the desperate but patently false claims of IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyers that their saviour and client is innocent of the crimes for which he was tried, convicted and sentenced, since those claims are self-evidently false as documented evidence of the actions of Nnamdi Kanu, (incendiary broadcasts), expressly prohibited by law (Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, TPPA, in its various versions pursuant to amendments) are all over the place (ie recordings of his incendiary Broadcasts on his Radio Biafra for all to see).

The frantic alarm now being raised by the lunatics who rushed to appeal a case in which the accused was found guilty of clearly articulated and proven offenses which carry capital punishment by the stipulation of the Law under which he was charged, tried, convicted and sentenced, is an indication that the Defence Team neither understood the right of the Prosecution to Cross-Appeal nor the risk of plunging their client back into the pit of Death Sentences from which Judge Omotosho already lifted the Convict when he pronounced Life Sentences in place of the Death Sentences stipulated by the Law under which the Trial and Conviction took place. 

Is it not tragic that the IPOB propaganda machinery, Nnamdi Kanu and his hopeless Lawyers will choose to bastardize the name and reputation of Judge James Omotosho whom they accused all over the internet, of having been bribed to convict and sentence an “innocent man”, but who mercifully and magnanimously reduced the Five Death Sentences he was required by Law (the TPPA) to pronounce on each of those five convictions, to Life Sentences, citing from the Book of Matthew as his reason? 

For clarity and for the enlightenment of all concerned and the general public, let it be understood that after a Trial, the two sides (Prosecution and Defence) are entitled to appeal the decision of the Trial Court if they are dissatisfied with the Judgment or any aspect of it. 

The way it works is that when one side appeals (in this case the Defence) against the judgment or any aspects of it, the other side (the Prosecution) is entitled to bring its own appeal for its own grievances against the Judgment or any aspects of it. 

This is known as Cross-Appeal and that is precisely what the Prosecution (Federal Government) has done, in Rejection of the Life Sentences handed out by Judge Omotosho in place of the Death Sentences stipulated by the Law (TPPA), following the Appeal filed by the Defence Team against the Convictions and Sentences 

In other words, whereas the Defence could appeal against the Conviction and Sentence, the Prosecution is entitled to appeal against the Sentence as it has now done.

The claim made by the Prosecution in their Appeal, to the absence of JURISDICTION on the side of the Judge, refers to the departure of the Judge from the Stipulations of the Law (TPPA) regarding Sentencing for Conviction in respect of five of the charges for which the accused was pronounced guilty and therefore convicted. 

In other words, the Prosecution is contending at Appeal that the Trial Judge, James Omotosho, had no Jurisdiction to sidestep and abandon the clear stipulations of the Law (TPPA) regarding Sentencing as he did when he cited the Book of Matthew as the basis of the Life Sentences he pronounced, in place of the Death Sentences stipulated by the TPPA in respect of each of the Five Convictions that carry Capital Punishment. 

Let it be noted that Cross-Appeals stand on their own right and will go on irrespective of what happens with the Appeal including if the Appellant (Defence in this case) withdraws its Appeal.

In the Press Statement by IPOB and the Lawyers of Nnamdi Kanu being circulated massively across the social media space, they claimed in their trade-mark falsehood, dishonesty, propaganda and attempt to obfuscate, that the Federal Government of Nigeria in its Cross-Appeal, admitted that the Judge had no Jurisdiction to try the matter or to reach a verdict of guilt against their saviour. 

This was exactly the same kind of falsehood, propaganda and obfuscation that was deployed by IPOB, Nnamdi and his despicable Lawyers in respect of the Court of Appeal Judgment that went to the Supreme Court, following which the matter was transmitted back to the Federal High Court for Trial by the Order the Supreme Court. 

It would be recalled that in the period just before that Supreme Court’s Judgment, I had cause to write a public memorandum and note of caution addressed particularly to Mike Ozekhome to warn about the danger of the False Claim that the Court of Appeal Acquitted and Ordered the Release of Nnamdi Kanu as the Discharge of the outstanding Charges of 2015 round of Charges by the Court of Appeal did not deal with or affect the new Charges emanating from the post-2017 activities of Nnamdi Kanu which formed the basis of the Supreme Court Judgement transmitting the matter to the Federal High Court for Trial. It was merely a question of separating two different sets of Charges from two different periods – 2015 and Post-2017 by the Supreme Court.

Here is a link to the 2025 Clarification Memo:

“No Court In Nigeria Acquitted Or Ordered The Release Of Nnamdi Kanu Since His Apprehension In Kenya, Contrary To Widespread Claims In The Media Space” . Tony Nnadi, LNC-NINAS, 14 October 2025.

https://ninasmovementnews.substack.com/p/no-court-in-nigeria-acquitted-or

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