Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Wednesday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the country’s capital, that he’s been a fan of Liverpool Football Club since childhood.
Kanu made this revelation when Justice Binta Nyako jokingly asked him his favourite football team.
The IPOB leader responded that he has been a fan of Liverpool Football Club since he was seven.
The development happened when the lawyer of Kanu, Chief Mike Ozekhome, made a complaint that the Department of State Services (DSS) had disallowed him and other counsel to meet with the IPOB leader whenever they came to visit him in detention.
The trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, brought it to the remembrance of Ozekhome that he had once acknowledged and praised the DSS in open court for procuring an orthopaedic mattress, pillow and others for his client.
The judge however said she had ordered that the security agents give Kanu moderate care in detention like food, clothing, medicare, etc.
The judge said despite the fact that he has told Kanu to change his clothes, the leader of the IPOB has continued to put on the same milk-colour designer wear.
The judge then jokingly said she was a fan of Liverpool and asked Ozekhome if he too was also a fan of the football club, and the senior lawyer answered in the affirmative.
He said he was also a fan of Liverpool F.C.
The judge then asked Kanu if he was a fan of Chelsea Football Club, considering by designer’s clothes he wears to court.
“What is your team?” she asked.
Kanu gently rose up in the dock and said: “My team is Liverpool even from the age of seven”.
“You must allow the defendant to watch the matches any day they are playing,” she said, adding that she was going to make an order to that effect.
The DSS official, however, it had always given Kanu access to watch.
