Following its failure to
meet the Sunday, October 7, deadline placed by the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared
ineligible to field candidates for all elective positions in Zamfara ahead of
the 2019 general polls.
The bail granted to Mahmud
Shinkafi, a former governor of Zamfara state, could be revoked according to
Justice Fatima Aminu who earlier granted it.
This threat was issued based on the failure of the former governor to
appear in court.
Shinkafi was arraigned
alongside three others; Bashir Yuguda, Ibrahim Mallaha and Aminu Nahuche, for
allegedly conniving to collect N450 million from a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Deizani Alison- Madueke.
In a press release
published by Premium Times, all the defendants when they were arraigned pleaded
not guilty when the charge was read to them and the matter was subsequently
adjourned to June 27, 2018 for hearing.
However, on the said day,
counsel to the second defendant, Ahmed Raji, filed a motion, challenging the
jurisdiction of the court to try the matter.
The matter was then adjourned
to October 10, for hearing. But when the case was called, one of the sureties
to the second defendant informed the court that the second defendant was
summoned to Abuja over the security situation in Gusau, the news outlet reports
further.
Consequently, the judge
warned that the judicial discretion of the court should not be taken for
granted.
“I am sounding a word of
caution or warning that such shall not be repeated or the bail of the second
defendant will be revoked,” the trial judge declared.
No comments:
Post a Comment