Lamido, sons may go home on Tuesday, as bail application moves to Abuja

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Abdulsalam Muhammad
Kano – The application for the admittance of former Jigawa governor, Sule Lamido and his two sons-Mustapha and Aminu- to bail, is to be determined on Tuesday by an Abuja Federal High Court.

This is because the judge who heard the money laundering case being preferred against the suspects by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is proceeding along with her colleagues on vacation, which will terminate in September this year.

But in Abuja, no fewer than two vacation judges will be sitting to hear critical matters arising in the judiciary during period.

Vanguard learnt from sources close to the former governor, who is being besieged by supporters at the Kano Central Prison, that his legal team would move into Abuja on Monday to prepare the grounds for the release of the Lamido and his two sons.

It was learnt that the bail application paper has already been assigned to a senior judge in Abuja who is likely going to give the suspects bail on very stringent terms.

The legal team is likely to argue that former governors of Adamawa and Imo states who were arraigned in court on the dame day with Lamido and sons were admitted to bail same day and that there was no justification to deny the former foreign affairs minister similar gesture for a bailable offense.

A visit to the Kano Prison on Sunday by one of our correspondents showed that no fewer than 1000 persons were queuing to have a glimpse of Lamido as a mark of their identification with him since being thrown into the reformatory house last Thursday.

The politician is reported to have told his admirers that his spirit was unbroken and that he would come out of his current predicament unscathed having been kept in prisons before for the sake of democracy advancement in Nigeria.

It will be recalled that the police had to contend with the supporters of the politician in Kano a Federal a High Court before being able to bring him to the court for arraignment last Thursday.