365news gathered that The hearing for the N20 billion lawsuit brought by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, against Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation, has been postponed.
The Federal High Court in Abuja’s Justice Inyang Ekwo set November 18 for the case’s hearing. Ahmed Abubakar, the director-general of the National Intelligence Agency, was also named as a defendant.
However, according to a tweet from Kanu’s attorney, Aloy Ejimakor, the lawsuit has been dropped.
He tweeted on Thursday, “UPDATE on #MNK outstanding cases in which I’m directly involved:
“The United Kingdom case is awaiting decision. Federal High Court case for Nov 18 is discontinued.
“The AU (African Union) case is awaiting decision.
“United Nations Opinion has been escalated to other tribunals.
“The Kenyan case is set for February 2023, (sad).”
Kanu, through Ejimakor, had filed a writ of summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1702/222.
The application, dated and filed on September 23, listed Malami and Abubakar as the first and second defendants, respectively.
Ejimakor sought “a declaration that the defendant’s arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff (Kanu) at a location in Kenya and the subsequent imprisonment of the plaintiff in the aircraft that conveyed him from Kenya to Nigeria amounted to false arrest and false imprisonment;
“A declaration of this honourable court that the defendants acted in bad faith and/or abused their public offices in falsely arresting and falsely imprisoning the plaintiff at the said location in Kenya and said aircraft;
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendants to, jointly and severally, pay to the plaintiff the sum of N20,000,000,000.00 being general and exemplary damages;
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendants to separately write and deliver to the plaintiff an unreserved personal letter of apology.”
