The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed February 27 to take the preliminary objection filed by a former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, challenging the forfeiture of his Ilorin, Kwara State, houses to the Federal Government.
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The court had on December 2, 2019 ordered the temporary forfeiture of the houses, following an ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The anti-graft agency told the court that the properties – Plots No. 10 and No. 11 Abdulkadir Road, GRA, Ilorin, Kwara State – were acquired with proceeds of unlawful activities allegedly perpetrated by Saraki while he was Kwara State Governor between 2003 and 2011.
But Saraki, in a preliminary objection to the EFCC’s claim, urged the court to dismiss the suit for want of territorial jurisdiction.
Saraki’s lawyer, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), said the EFCC suit was an abuse of court processes because it was filed at a time when a suit on the same subject matter was still pending at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
According to him, in the Abuja suit, Justice Taiwo Taiwo had on May 14, 2019 made an order for parties to stay action on the subject matter pending the determination of an originating motion on notice.
“Despite the pendency of the above-captioned suit, service of the originating processes and the subsistence of the aforesaid order of this court, the respondent surreptitiously commenced Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1867/2019 between the EFCC v Dr Bukola Saraki on 14th October 2019 in this court where it seeks orders aimed at neutralising the order of the Abuja division of this court,” he said.
The ex-Kwara governor said the new EFCC’s suit was meant to “irritate, annoy and scandalise” him and urged Justice Rilwan Aikawa to dismiss it.
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