A U.S.-based human rights watchdog, the Rising Sun Foundation for Justice and Human Rights, has warned that Nigeria is now in a full-blown constitutional crisis over the ongoing trial of detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The group in a statement issued Tuesday by its director, Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Augustine Odinmegwadescribed the process as “a decade-long judicial fraud that has placed Nigeria in serial contempt of court.

“The warning, issued to world media in Washington, D.C., ahead of a Federal High Court judgment scheduled for November 20 in Abuja, warned that the case may

“become one of the most legally disastrous judgments in modern African history.

“Fr. Odinmegwa accused the Nigerian government of using the judicial system to persecute a political opponent rather than uphold the rule of law.

“This is not a judicial process,” he said adding, “It is state-engineered persecution and a sustained attempt to criminalize dissent by destroying the very Constitution Nigeria claims to uphold.”