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  A legal practitioner, Christopher Chidera, has challenged the conviction of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, arguing that the judgment relied on a terrorism law that had already been repealed. Chidera, in a legal commentary titled “The Conviction That Killed the Law to Save Itself: How Justice Omotosho Turned Criminal Law Upside Down to Convict Nnamdi Kanu,” questioned the legal basis of the conviction delivered by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on November 20, 2025. The lawyer's central argument is that Kanu could not lawfully have been convicted under the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Act 2013 because the legislation was repealed on May 12, 2022. According to Chidera, Section 36(12) of the Nigerian Constitution requires a criminal offence to be defined and its punishment prescribed in a written law before a person can be convicted. He argued that the judgment failed to identify an operative penal statute that satis...