The judge described Governor Yusuf’s order directing the police to arrest Mr Ado-Bayero without lawful justification as threatening his fundamental rights.
The governors failed and refused to put in place a democratically elected local government system.
Mr Fagbemi said this at the 2024 National Judicial Summit on the Justice Sector, held on Wednesday in Abuja.
I encourage anyone who has been invited by the EFCC or any other agency to immediately toe the path of decency.
The defendants are to be remanded in Kuje prison custody pending the trial’s outcome.
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday, fixed March 20 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The president further said, “the judiciary should not be blamed for the failing of the political class.”
The Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre has called on the National Assembly to introduce means to address human rights violations in the country.
“There seems to be moves to throw the nation into chaos or conflagration.”
He had pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail in the sum of N20 million with one surety in like sum.
