Nnamdi Kanu lists Wike, Malami, Umahi, Sanwo-Olu, Buratai, others as witnesses

The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has listed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, and the former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, as his witness in his ongoing alleged terrorism trial.

Other listed as “compellable witnesses” by Kanu are Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) and Hope Uzodinma (Imo); the former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd); and the former Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai (rtd).

Others include the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi; the immediate-past governor of Abia, Okezie Ikpeazu; the former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar; former DG of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi; and several witnesses whose identities he didn’t reveal.

Kanu, in a fresh motion he personally signed and filed before Justice Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, assured that he was ready to begin his defence as ordered by the court.

The motion, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015 and dated October 20, was filed on Tuesday, October 21.

The IPOB leader said the motion was “pursuant to the order of this honourable court made on the 16th day of October 2015, directing the defendant to commence his defence on the 24th day of October 2025.”

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Kanu informed the court of his plan to call 23 witnesses divided into two categories.

The first category, he said, would be those he called “ordinary but material witnesses.”

He further informed the court that his second category of witnesses would be “vital and compellable” and shall be “summoned under Section 232 of the Evidence Act, 2011.”

Kanu prayed the court that, in view of the number of witnesses he intends to call, the court should consider granting a 90-day timeframe to enable him conclude his defence.

Kanu told the court that he would “testify on his own behalf, providing a sworn account of the facts, denying the allegations, and explaining the political context of his statements and actions.”

Kanu, in the motion, promised to “provide the sworn statements of all voluntary witnesses to this honourable court, and to notify the prosecution within a reasonable time.”

He assured that “no precious time of the honourable court would be delayed.”

“It would interest the honourable court and the general public that justice is not only done but manifestly seen to have been done,” Kanu added.

The Star