The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice has filed an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, freeing Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a lawyer to Kanu confirmed receipt of court filings concerning the appeal.

He said Kanu’s lead counsel, Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, received a copy of the court documents on the appeal on Wednesday.

It was learnt that the government contended in its notice of appeal that the Court of Appeal was wrong to have faulted Kanu’s extraordinary rendition to Nigeria and gone ahead to strike out the charges against him on that basis.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and his counterpart at the Ministry of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, argued that the Court of Appeal only discharged Kanu and did not acquit him.

In addition to appealing against the Court of Appeal’s decision, the government has applied to the Supreme Court for an order staying execution of the power’s judgement.

Kanu was first arrested in 2015 and charged with various offences including treasonable felony over his separatist activities championing the secession of South-east and some parts of the South-south as an independent Biafra nation.