Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday fixed November 20 for ruling in the terrorism trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

Naijaonpoint reports that Justice Omotosho chose the date on Friday while ruling after Kanu failed to open his defence having exhausted the six days allocated to him by the court to conduct his defence.

The judge said Kanu, having failed to utilise the opportunity granted him to conduct his defence, he cannot claim to have been denied the constitutionally guaranteed rights to fair hearing.

Kanu had on Friday filed a motion wherein he challenged the competence of the charge and the jurisdiction of the court to try him.

The court had initially stood down the case for one hour after the defendant, who is representing himself after he disengaged his lawyers, indicated his intention to file his defence.

However, in the process he filed, Kanu insisted that his prosecution was based on a non-existent law.

He argued that the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, under which the charge was brought against him, had since been repealed.