Court adjourns judgment until Dec. 2 in El-Rufai’s N1bn suit against ICPC, AGF and IGP

The Federal High Court in Abuja will deliver judgment on Dec. 2 in former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s N1 billion suit against the ICPC, the inspector-general of police and the attorney-general of the federation. El-Rufai says a search of his Abuja residence on Feb. 19 violated his fundamental rights and is seeking, among other remedies, to have evidence seized in the search ruled inadmissible. His lawyer was absent when the case was called, so Justice Joyce Abdulmalik deemed the former governor’s filed processes adopted; lawyers for all three respondents urged the court to dismiss the suit. El-Rufai had earlier removed a magistrate from the case after he could not identify the magistrate by name.