Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s suspended governor, filed a request on Thursday asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to adjourn his trial by the Department of State Services until August 15.
The court will also hear a request from the DSS to dispute the N20 million bail that Emefiele was given.
The prosecution’s further counter-affidavit was served on the defense in court just before the Thursday proceedings got underway, and Justice Nicholas Oweibo set the date so that the defense could respond.
Even though the DSS application was ready for hearing, the judge ruled that Emefiele’s legal team needed a chance to respond.
In a fresh Motion on Notice, Emefiele, who has been in the DSS detention since June 10, is urging the court to quash the illegal firearms charges filed against him by the DSS and set him free.
His lawyer, Joseph Daudu (SAN), argued that the DSS could not continue to prosecute Emefiele while it had refused to obey the court order admitting him to bail.
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“The complainant, having brazenly defied the orders of court made in July 25, is in contempt of the proceedings of the court.
“Until the complainant complies with the afore-described subsisting orders of the court, it cannot continue to lawfully prosecute the charge neither can it be afforded any right of audience in any court in Nigeria,” Daudu said.
He, therefore, prayed for a court order “prohibiting the complainant from further prosecuting the instant charge or any other charge against the applicant or seeking any form of indulgence before the court, inclusive of the application to grant leave to appeal against the order granting the appellant bail and other ancillary orders.”
He urged the court to make “an order discharging the defendant/appellant from the instant charge, which cannot be lawfully prosecuted by the complainant who is in brazen disobedience of subsisting orders of the court made on July 25, 2023.”
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