Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has pleaded not guilty to the seven amended charges preferred against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Kanu, who was re-arraigned at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him.
At Thursday’s proceeding, the trial Judge, Justice Binta Nyako refused his application for transfer to Kuje Correctional Centre from the DSS facility where he has been detained.
The judge however allowed three persons of his choice to visit him at the DSS facility.
Thereafter, the judge adjourned the case to November 10 for the hearing of his application, challenging the competence of the charges against him.
The federal government recently raised the charges against the lPOB leader to seven counts as against the five counts he was previously being tried for. The new charges border on treasonable felony and terrorism.
Kanu was first arrested in 2015 and arraigned on charges bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory matter, illegal possession of firearms, and improper importation of goods, among others.
He fled the country in 2017 after he was granted bail for medical reasons.
Four years after he jumped bail, he was intercepted and repatriated to Nigeria on June 27, following a joint operation by Nigerian security operatives and their international partners.