A federal court in Abuja has struck out a motion filled by Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), seeking to be relocated from the Sokoto prison where he is currently being held.
The federal court struck out the motion in a ruling delivered on Tuesday January 27th, Justice James Omotosho said that the application was incompetent adding that Kanu failed to comply with an earlier court order directing him to regularise the motion.
The judge said; “In respect of the application before this court, it has to do with an application that was brought incompetently, as per seeking the movements of the convict from where he is presently kept,”
“The application is not competent. However, in the interest of justice, when it came up, the court gave a hint and urged that the same be converted, in other words, telling the applicant to go and file a motion on notice.”
Justice Omotosho noted that Kanu failed to comply with the directive within the stipulated time.
“The applicant, having not filed the motion on notice today, the 27th day of January, 2026, there is no application for determination before this court,” he said. “It is based on this that the motion ex parte is struck out as there is nothing to be determined.”
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