The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has adjourned till October 31 the hearing on an appeal by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) challenging its proscription as a terrorist organisation by the Federal Government.
IPOB, represented by lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor, is seeking to overturn a 2017 ruling by the late Justice Abdul Abdu-Kafarati of the Federal High Court declaring IPOB’s activities illegal, particularly in the South-east and South-South regions of Nigeria.
The original proscription came after a motion filed by former Attorney General Abubakar Malami on behalf of the Federal Government outlawing IPOB but also prohibited any participation in the group’s activities.
But IPOB’s appeal argued that the original ruling failed to consider evidence of their non-violent nature and inadvertently labeled over 30 million Nigerians of Igbo extraction as terrorists.
