A Chief Magistrate Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, has vacated the court order that had remanded ex-presidential aide Reno Omokri.
The court, presided over by Chief Emmanuel A. Iyanna, had issued the remand warrant through an ex-parte motion filed by the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on January 13, 2025.
In an appeal filed at the FCT High Court, with Appeal No. CRA/2/2025, by Osa Director and Co, lawyers for Mr Omokri, it sought a stay of execution of the remand order granted by the magistrate court.
Consequently, when the matter came up for hearing on January 30, 2025, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Chief Emmanuel Iyanna, ordered the removal of Omokri’s name from the First Information Report, FIR.
Reacting, Osa Director, the legal representative of Omokri, described the ruling as a welcome development.
He, however, described the suit as ‘extremely unchristian’ and beneath the character of a pastor to secretly instigate a remand order at a lower court, such as a magistrate court, without even putting Mr Reno Omokri on notice.
“By engaging in open and partisan political campaigning while on the pulpit, even to the point of telling people who to vote for, with their photos, Pastor Enenche violated that provision, and the Body of Christ would not tolerate that coming from a major Muslim cleric.
“In the words of Omokri, ‘President Bola Tinubu did not rig the election. He won it according to the Supreme Court. Peter Obi was not cheated. He came a distant third.’
“With the above justifications, our client, Mr. Reno Omokri, is ready to meet with Enenche in court if he chooses to continue with the matter,” he said.
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