The matter, scheduled on number 15 on the cause list, could not proceed due to the absence of the presiding judge, Inyang Ekwo.
“The publications are blatantly false and misleading,” she said in the suit.
The federal government, through the EFCC, had, in an ex-parte motion, sought a bench warrant against Mrs Alison-Madueke on January 24, 2022.
Mr Bawa made the pronouncement in Port Harcourt, while declaring open a workshop on Financial Crimes Reporting held for journalists in the Niger Delta.
The EFCC had accused the former minister of fleeing the country for the UK to escape justice, among others.
Prosecuting counsel Rotimi Jacobs told the court that the two witnesses he had scheduled to call were both indisposed.
