IPOB urges South-east to withdraw support for APC over Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal
Mr Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism in November 2025 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Still, his appeal against judgement has not been listed for hearing since February this year The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has asked the people of the South-east and others in parts of the South-South to withdraw their support for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the Nigerian government’s delay in listing Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal against his conviction. Mr Kanu is the convicted leader of IPOB, a group seeking an independent state of Biafra, which it wants carved out of the South-east and parts of South-South Nigeria. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism in November 2025 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The IPOB leader, who is serving his jail term in a prison facility in Sokoto State, filed an appeal against his conviction and sentencing in February this year. But the hearing on the appeal has not begun, even ...