In February, security forces revealed that the IPOB leader was spotted in Ghana alongside his wife. He later resurfaced in an undated video of him observing some rites at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. The plaintiff, Donald Okonkwo, made the appeal in a suit filed by his counsel, Abiodun Sodiq, yesterday. But the plaintiff, in a suit through Abiodun Sodiq, his counsel, said Kanu was hiding in the UK, asking the court to order his repatriation within 21 days.
The plaintiff, therefore, prayed the court to declare that the 2nd respondent “abdicated his duties by failing, neglecting or omitting to arrest and extradite the IPOB separatist leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from the Great Britain back to Nigeria so he can stand his trial for treasonable felony, amongst other sundry offences.” He asked the court to order that the AGF is under a statutory duty to advise President Muhammadu Buhari to severe diplomatic ties with the British high commission in Nigeria”for harbouring Mazi Nnamdi Kanu being a fugitive cum terrorist”