The Federal Government has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that Nnamdi Kanu’s threat to break up Nigeria was not just a boast, as reported by Leadership on Friday, 18 July, 2025.
Government lawyers said Kanu, leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), made a broadcast on Radio Biafra declaring his plan to create a separate Biafran nation.
The government said the broadcast made many Nigerians live in fear.
It also said Kanu asked his followers to attack policemen and their families.
According to the prosecution, over 170 security officers were killed after that broadcast.
The government lawyer, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), told the court to reject Kanu’s application that he had no case to answer.
He said threatening to break up Nigeria is a serious national security matter and should not be taken lightly.
Awomolo argued that Kanu was fully aware that IPOB was outlawed.
He said the law forbids speech that causes fear and panic in the country.
He urged the judge to make Kanu defend himself in the seven-count terrorism case.
“The defendant made a broadcast. He proudly declared himself as IPOB leader, even when he knew that IPOB had been proscribed. He made a broadcast that the world will come to standstill.
The law of Nigeria prohibits words capable of making Nigerians live in perpetual fears, threatening to bring Nigeria down. The aim is to create Biafra and not a mere boasting and there are consequences for such boasting,” the lawyer argued.
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