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Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer accuses Buhari of 'HYPOCRISY'

– A lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra has said that President Muhammadu Buhari lack the justification to deploy Nigerian troops to Gambia

– The lawyer said that the action by the president is hypocritical

– He said Nigeria has no business in Gambia having disobeyed several court orders in the country

Buhari lacks moral justification to send troops to Gambia – Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer

Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has no right to deploy troops to Gambia

A lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra has said that President Muhammadu Buhari lack the justification to deploy Nigerian troops to Gambia.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, Ifeanyi Ejiofor said the action by the president is hypocritical.

It is purely hypocritical, only a few days ago, troops were deployed to Gambia to enforce orders made by ECOWAS, the same ECOWAS that the federal government had disobeyed their order.

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“You are talking about going to another country to go and enforce rule of law when in your own country you have not been able to obey orders made by the court,” Ejiofor said.

“It is also in this country that we have an order where a court directed that Dasuki should be released by ECOWAS court, that ECOWAS court that you are trying to go and defend

their interest, you are yet to comply with their order concerning your country,” he said.

Citing more cases like that of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, Ejiofor said Nigeria has no business in Gambia having disobeyed several court orders in the country.

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“All these orders made by both local and international courts, you disobeyed, now you have the effrontery to deploy troops to Gambia to go and enforce rule of law over there, is that possible?” Ejiofor asked.

On Tuesday, January 18, the Nigerian air force deployed 200 troops to Gambia in preparation for the inauguration of Adama Barrow, Gambia’s president-elect.

The deployment of the troops came after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ordered the deployment of military contingency to Gambia.

The contingency were deployed to ensure a peaceful transition of power between the nation’s president Yahya Jammeh and the president-elect.