A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined to hear a motion filed by Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order transferring him from the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, to the National Hospital in Abuja for urgent medical attention.
The presiding judge, Justice Musa Liman, said his fiat to sit as a vacation judge ends today (Monday) and therefore lacked the jurisdiction to entertain such a new matter for hearing.
Instead, the judge ordered that the case file be returned to the registry for the Chief Judge for re-assignment to another judge.
At Monday’s proceedings, Asiwaju Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, appeared for the Federal Government while Uchenna Njoku, SAN, represented the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
When the matter was called, Kanu’s lawyer informed the judge that his client’s motion was filed on September 1, while a 37 37-paragraph counter-affidavit opposing the transfer request was served on him by the government in the open court.
He, therefore, applied for an adjournment to enable him to respond to the counter affidavit, particularly in view of the fact that the vacation of the judge ends on Monday.