Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) seeking a 14-day extended detention order for the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele.
The DSS based its application on purported new evidence it had discovered.
The application was discreetly filed by the DSS’s legal team on Wednesday.
Justice Muazu dismissed the application, citing it as an abuse of court process and identifying the lack of jurisdiction.
The application came in the wake of Emefiele’s re-arrest by the DSS from the Federal High Court premises in Lagos, following his remand in a Correctional Centre while awaiting the fulfilment of his bail conditions granted by Justice Nicholas Oweibo.
