A Federal High Court, Abuja has extended the order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and Department of State Services (DSS) from detaining Senator Abdul’aziz Yari pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Justice Donatus Okorowo extended the order on Thursday after Yari’s counsel, Michael Aondoaka, SAN, made an oral application to the effect.
The development occured following a plea for an adjournment moved by lawyer to the EFCC, Gloria Ogbason, and her counterpart representing the ICPC, Kemi Odogun, to enable them file their responses to Yari’s motion.
Corroborating Ogbason’s submission, Odogun, who said the ICPC was served on June 6, also sought an adjournment
Obasun and Odogun did not object to Aondoaka’s application for extension of the order.
Justice Okorowo, who adjourned the matter until June 27, barred the EFCC, ICPC and DSS from.detaining Yari until they appear to show cause in the next adjourned date.
The 10th National Assembly will be inaugurated on June 13 after a proclamation by President Bola Tinubu and Yari, the two-term ex-governor of Zamfara, had indicated interest to contest for the position of the Senate president of the 10th assembly.
Yari had, through his team of lawyers led by Aondoaaa, filed the ex-parte motion on June 2 sueing the EFCC, ICPC and DSS as 1st to 3rd defendants respectively.
In the application, the ex-governor prayed the court for an order, restraining the respondents, their officials from arresting or threatening to arrest and detain him on trumped- up charges in order to prevent him from attending or participating at the Proclamation of the 10th Senate by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on June 13 pending the hearing and determination of his motion on notice.
