15/01/2026
PRESS BRIEFING
14th January 2026.
OMOTOSHOâS 101 ERRORS OF LAW: NNAMDI KANU FILES APPEAL AGAINST A CONVICTION WITHOUT LAW OR CRIME
The Global Defence Consortium today formally announces the public release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanuâs Notice of Appeal, marking the first decisive phase in a coordinated global legal challenge to the conviction delivered on 20 November 2025 by Justice J.K. Omotosho.
After a forensic review of the 144-page judgment, senior criminal defence lawyers from South Africa, Kenya, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria identified 1,156 distinct errors of law, logic, and jurisprudence. From these, the Consortium distilled 101 unassailable errorsâpredominantly jurisdictionalâthat strike at the heart of the conviction.
The appeal demonstrates, with precision, that the conviction was secured without an extant offence-creating statute, without settled jurisdiction, without proof of any crime, and in defiance of constitutional safeguards, binding statutes, and treaty obligations. It exposes a trial that proceeded on contradiction, speculation, and judicial substitution for proofâculminating in a sentence imposed where law itself was absent.
This Notice of Appeal places the Nigerian judiciary at a historic crossroads: affirm the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of lawâor validate a conviction that dismantles both.
The Consortium states unequivocally: this appeal is not merely about one man. It is a constitutional reckoning. The outcome will determine whether Nigeriaâs courts remain courts of lawâor instruments of power unbound by law.
ADDENDUM (PUBLIC NOTICE)
For ease of understanding by law students, legal practitioners, and the general public, the Consortium will publish two Grounds of Appeal per day, sequentially and without commentary, until all 101 Grounds are fully released.
Each Ground will speak for itself.
Let the world judgeâbetween Nigeria and âwho is guilty of offending the law, the Constitution, and the other.
ENDS
Signed: Njoku Jude Njoku, Esq.
