Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is set to open his defence in his ongoing decade-old terrorism trial, listing several top political figures and retired military chiefs as witnesses he intends to call.
In a fresh motion, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, dated October 20, the IPOB leader listed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), among his witnesses.
In the defence notice personally signed him, Kanu informed the court of his intention to call 23 witnesses, divided into two categories — “ordinary but material witnesses” and “vital and compellable witnesses.”
Among the “vital and compellable witnesses” are Wike, Sanwo-Olu, Buratai, alongside s former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.); the governors of Lagos and Imo states, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Hope Uzodinma, respectively.