Who Dragged Nnamdi Kanu Back To Court After IPOB Said “No More Trial”?

Let us return, briefly and honestly, to the moment Nigeria’s power elite does not want revisited.

Between July 2021 and October 2022, the Nigerian government was cornered by law. Through the relentless legal work of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, the case against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had effectively collapsed. Court orders were issued. Judgments were delivered. The state was instructed clearly to release him.
For once, Nigeria’s judiciary had spoken louder than politics.

IPOB echoed that reality with one clear position: “No more trial. Enforce the judgment.”

That should have been the end, but that was when the real sabotage began.

The truth many are now unwilling to confront is this:
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor and members of Nnamdi Kanu’s immediate family are the ones who dragged the case back to court.

Not the Nigerian government.
Not the judges.
Not IPOB.
It was them.

While IPOB stood firmly on the position of no retrial, insisting that the existing judgments be obeyed, Aloy Ejimakor acting as a special counsel and Kanu’s siblings chose a different path: negotiation over enforcement, compromise over victory.

They took a case that was already won and voluntarily returned it to the same system that had been defeated. That single decision altered everything; from legal victory to political gamble.

By January 2023, the case was mysteriously alive again. No appellate court had nullified the earlier judgments. No superior ruling had ordered a retrial. Yet, there they were, back in court, reopening arguments that had already been settled. And, that was not an accident.

What IPOB warned against; that returning to trial would end badly, became the reality.

IPOB Said “Stop,” The Glory Hunters Said “Continue”. And, this is the part history will not forgive easily.

IPOB said no more trial because the law was already on their side.
Aloy Ejimakor and the Kanu family said there is still trial because they desperately needed to monetize Nnamdi Kanu for their own benefits.
IPOB chose enforcement.
The Glory Hunters chose negotiation.

And in Nigeria, negotiation with power rarely ends well for the powerless.

By reopening the case, they handed the Nigerian government something it desperately needed: time. Time to regroup. Time to reframe. Time to weaponize the courts once again. That gift of time ultimately produced the 2025 sentencing that shocked the world.

Pertinent Questions:

• Since the case was already won, why did they dragged it back to court?
• Since court orders existed, why were they not enforced?
• Since IPOB rejected retrial, who overruled them and in whose interest?

These questions point in one direction, and that direction leads straight to Barrister Aloy Ejimakor and the inner family circle of Nnamdi Kanu.

This is not about emotions. It is about decisions, and their consequences.

A legal victory was sacrificed.
A movement’s position was ignored.
And a man’s freedom was gambled away.

History will record who stood on principle, and who chose the table of compromise.

Written by: Family Writers Press International

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