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Hundreds of Nigerians Friday\u00a0 stormed a London Court to witness the trial of former Delta State Governor\u00a0 Chief James Onanefe Ibori.<\/p>\n

This was contained in press statement issued by Ibori\u2019s Media Assistant\u00a0 Mr Tony Eluemunor and made available to Saturday Vanguard.
According to the statement:\u00a0 \u201c Many of the Nigerians\u00a0 who went to the court to observe the proceedings wore T-shirts with inscriptions like\u00a0 \u201cFree Ibori\u201d and \u201cDeltans want Ibori back home.<\/p>\n

Eluemunor further stated that\u00a0 some of\u00a0 these supporters claimed to have travelled all the way from Nigeria to the UK to demonstrate their support for the politician,\u00a0 but most of them were London-based.<\/p>\n

According to the statement: \u201cAttending Friday\u2019s preliminary hearing which started by 12 mid-day, Ibori sported a dark blue suit and white shirt as he appeared before Judge Rivlin QC. Ibori only spoke to confirm his name. Looking\u00a0 trim and clean shaven, Ibori waved to his supporters at the end of the\u00a0 hearing. The crowd waved back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eluemunor further stated: \u201cOpening the hearing, the lead prosecuting counsel, Ms Wass explained that there\u00a0 were two trials to be conducted against Ibori.<\/p>\n

She asked the court for the trials to be joined\u00a0 stating that \u2018this is a fairly straightforward case\u2019, she argued that since Ibori\u2019s counsel\u00a0 had\u00a0 already been\u00a0 briefed\u00a0 of the matter having being the defence counsel in the Udoamaka Okoronkwo case, there was no reason why the matter could not be concluded before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe asked the Court to handle the first matter for July and the second hearing in November. After going for a short recess, the Court set the next hearing date for 22 July 2011, by 10:00 am.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the statement: \u201cIbori had appeared at the City of Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on 22 April 2011 and\u00a0 also appeared at Southwark Crown Court on 28 April 2011 through video link. The Judge adjourned the matter and ordered that Ibori appear in person today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eluemunor further stated that security men at the Court\u00a0 had problems with the crowd of Ibori\u2019s supporters as they were asked severally to leave since\u00a0 the public gallery was too small for such a large crowd.<\/p>\n

According to him: \u201c Even when the Court security asked all the standing supporters who could not be seated to leave, they refused\u00a0 until the security personnel threatened to use force to eject them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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