Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja has refused an ex-parte motion for injunction to restrain the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from proceedings with the charge filed against Senate President Bukola Saraki and three others over the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Orders 2011 based on the police report issued on the case.
The judge, however, described as ‘an abuse of court process’ the decision of the AGF to file the charge marked CR/219/2016 during the pendency of a suit filed by a member of the Senate, Gilbert Emeka Nnaji, challenging the competence of the police report. Justice Kolawole queried the motive of the AGF, Abubakar Malami (SAN), who he noted had participated in the Nnaji case before his appointment as the AGF.
He wondered why Malami was in ‘desperate haste’ to proceed with the charge when he was aware of a suit challenging the report on which the charge was based.
