The Supreme Court on Thursday okayed the request by the Federal Government to file additional nine grounds in its appeal against the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The ruling followed an application moved by counsel for the FG, Tijani Gadzali, SAN.

Gadzali equally sought an adjournment to respond to Kanu’s request to be transferred from the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, to the Kuje Correctional Center.

The five-man panel led by Justice John Okoro of the Supreme Court okayed the Federal Government’s appeal and also granted leave to the FG to include the additional nine grounds as part of its amended notice of appeal dated October 28 2022.

Counsel to Kanu, Mike Ozekhome informed the court about a couple of motions filed by his client, including one in which he prayed to be relocated to Kuje prison from the facility of the Department of State Services, DSS.

According to Ozekhome, Kanu was seriously ill and required proper medical attention, which, he believed, his client could access at the Kuje prison.

Ozekhome, SAN, and Ifeanyi Ejiofor also drew the attention of the apex court to an application seeking the release of their client on bail, pending the conclusion of the hearing of the appeal.

He, thereafter, applied for an accelerated hearing of all the pending applications as well as the substantive appeal

Consequently, the Supreme Court adjourned the case till May 11 for a definite hearing.

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