A Government High Court in Abuja has expanded the request limiting the Monetary and Monetary Violations Commission, EFCC, Free Degenerate Practices and other related offenses Commission, ICPC, and Division of State Administrations, DSS, from confining Congressperson Abdulaziz Yari.
Following an oral application from Yari’s attorney, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, Justice Donatus Okorowo extended the order on Thursday.
The improvement happened following a request for a deferment moved by the legal counselor to the EFCC, Gloria Ogbason and her partner addressing
ICPC, Kemi Odogun, to empower them document their reactions to Yari’s movement.
Upon the continued hearing regarding this situation, Yari’s guidance, Aondoaka, informed that every one of the respondents had been filled in as coordinated by the court.
Ogbason stated that they had not yet submitted their response when they acknowledged receiving Yari’s processes on June 5.
She stated, “Consequently, we will be asking for a date since we are still within time to file my lord.”
Odogun also requested an adjournment, citing the fact that the ICPC was served on June 6, supporting Ogbason’s argument.
Additionally, she stated, “In accordance with the rules of this court, we are still within time to file, and we intend to show cause my lord.”
Aondoaka said however he was not contradicting their aim to answer his application, “We may be requesting a request expanding the request made on June 5 in light of the fact that the request was given by the court to shorten an opportunity to show cause.”
The senior lawyer also said that, even though the DSS, the third defendant in the lawsuit, was not represented in court, there was evidence that it had been served with their application.
Aondoaka’s request for an extension of the order was approved without opposition from Obasun or Odogun.
Equity Okorowo, who dismissed the matter until June 27, banned the EFCC, ICPC and DSS from keeping Yari until they seem to show cause on the following concluded date.
Yari, a two-term ex-legislative leader of Zamfara, had demonstrated interest to compete for the place of the Senate leader of the tenth gathering.
The ex-parte motion with the markings: was submitted by Yari and his team of lawyers, led by Mr. Aondoaaa. FHC/ANJ/CS/785/23.
Yari filed a motion on June 2 and named the EFCC, ICPC, and DSS as the first to third defendants in the case.
The former governor requested in the application that the court issue an order prohibiting the respondents and their representatives from arresting, detaining, and preventing him from attending or participating in the Proclamation of the 10th Senate by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on June 13 until his motion on notice is heard and decided.
The senator-elect stated in a 15-ground argument that his desire to run for president of the Senate had received overwhelming support from distinguished senators-elect regardless of party affiliation and from the general public.
Yari guaranteed the help which the candidate has kept on accumulating across partisan divisions has drawn horror from certain individuals from his ideological group, the All Reformists Congress (APC).
He claimed that the party has used the respondents and their agents to harass and threaten to arrest and detain the applicant on fictitious charges during the time leading up to the First Sitting of the Senate, when nominations and elections for presiding officers will be made, he claimed.
“The respondents and their agents have unlawfully threatened to violate the applicant’s rights as enshrined in the Constitution by unlawfully threatening to arrest and detain the applicant up to the period of the First Sitting of the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 13th of June 2023, without a warrant of arrest, and informing him in writing the reasons for the arrest and detention,” the complaint reads.
“The applicant’s fundamental human rights were violated by the respondents and their agents in violation of Section 34 of the 1999 (as amended) Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
He stated, “The respondents and their agents are mandated to operate within the ambit of their establishment laws and to respect the Applicant’s fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Constitution.”
Yari stated that the respondents would have violated his rights if the order had not been given.
