The detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra ( IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has told Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja, that the court lack jurisdiction to try him.
Mr Kanu made the argument on Thursday when he opened his defense before the trial judge.
The lead counsel to Kanu, Kanu Agabi, had applied to withdraw from representing the IPOB leader, stating that the defendant had taken the case back from them.
All the Senior Advocates of Nigeria on the defense team have also withdrawn from the suit, a development Nnamdi Kanu himself confirmed in court.
Kanu told the court that he would be representing himself for now, though that might change later. When the judge asked if he should be assigned a lawyer, he declined the offer.
The IPOB leader returned to the Federal High Court to open his defence in the suit instituted against him by the Federal Government on alleged terrorism.
Kanu had listed former Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai (rtd), a former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), and others as part of his witnesses.
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