A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Federal Government from taking steps to extradite a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Buruji Kashamu, to the United States on allegation of his complicity in illicit drug trade
, Senator Buruji Kashamu, to the United States on allegation of his complicity in illicit drug trade.
Kashamu had, in the suit challenged the propriety of a letter by Shehu Bodinga of the Central Control Unit in the AGF’s office, requesting the United States’ embassy in Nigeria to forward a fresh extradition application after the judgment by Justice Gabriel Kolawole in suit No: 479/2015 voiding an earlier extradition proceedings.
The judge also held that since the subsequent judgment by Justice Kolawole was also not appealed, it remains subsisting and binding on all parties. Justice Abang said: “The effect of the Court of Appeal dismissing the appeal against the judgment in suit No: 49/2010 is that the said judgment has validated in all its ramifications, inclusive of the restraining order in that judgment.
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