The adjournment is to allow Mr Bello’s lawyer to continue with the cross-examination of the EFCC’s 12th prosecution witness.
Mr Daudu maintained that the documents lacked a consideration clause evidencing the transaction and were therefore inadmissible.
Mr Malami had since challenged the anti-graft agency’s civil suit, praying the court to vacate the order.
Mr Malami and his son were directed to deposit their international passports and recent passport photographs with the court.
The witness stated that no transaction in Exhibit 33(8) had Mr Bello’s name.
The judge then stood down the matter for several hours to allow the parties to regularise their processes.
The development occurred at the hearing of a suit seeking to stop the PDP’s planned national convention at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Former Governor Yahaya Bello claimed he had been battling hypertension for 15 years and could only get proper medical care abroad.
Justice Nwite adjourned the matter until March 7 for continuation of trial.
When asked if Mr Bello signed the documents for the transaction in his presence, the witness said, “He did not, my lord.”
