Court sitting in Dutse,
Jigawa, on Thursday, June 28, discharged and acquitted the former governor of
the state, Sule Lamido, who was standing trial since 2017, following a suit instituted
against him by Jigawa state government.
The Jigawa state government dragged
Lamido before a magistrate court II in Dutse, on charges of inciting
disturbances, disturbance of public peace, criminal intimidation and defamation
of character.
Lamido is a frontline presidential
aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of the 2019 presidential
election. The defence counsel, Barrister Yakubu Ruba, challenged the magistrate
court on its jurisdiction to hear and determine the changes prepared against
his client, on the ground that the action was not initiated in accordance to
the provision of section 141 of the CPC Law of Jigawa state.
The magistrate, presiding over the
case, Usman Mohammed Lamin, overruled the submission of the Defence Counsel,
insisting that there was no violation of laid down procedure hence, the trial
continues.
In the course of the trial, the
Defence Counsel, filed an appeal before the state high court based on his earlier
submission and asked the magistrate court to adjourn the case sine dine.
In their Judgement, the Justices of
the state high court, Justices Ahmed Musa Gumel, Umar Sadiq and Abdulhadi
Suleman, discharged and acquitted the former governor setting aside all charges
initiated against him as earlier prayed in his counsel’s submissions.
Meanwhile, the federal government has
filed new criminal charges against Senator Bassey Akpan (Akwa Ibom, PDP) at the
Federal High Court, Abuja over his failure to declare his assets.
The
FG (complainant) in charge no:FHC/ABJ/CR/88/2018 slammed a two-count charge of “criminal breach of trust, diversion of
public funds, conspiracy and abuse of office contrary to section 3(3)(1)(a) of
the Recovery of public property (Special provision) Act 2004.”
Source: Naija.ng
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