The Court of Appeal just lately dismissed an attraction filed by former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, difficult the choice of the Kaduna State High Court to disclaim him bail.
Delivering its judgment in Appeal Number CA/K/254C/2026, the appellate courtroom affirmed the ruling of the decrease courtroom, holding that the trial choose exercised his discretion judicially and judiciously, with none miscarriage of justice.
According to the lead judgment delivered by Justice Onyekachi Aja-Otisi, the courtroom affirmed the ruling of the decrease courtroom, which refused the previous governor’s second bail utility on June 10.
The growth got here days after Justice Darious Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court rejected El-Rufai’s bail and recusal purposes.
El-Rufai, who has been in ICPC detention since February 18, is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for corruption throughout his tenure as governor.
He can also be going through trial for wiretapping allegations of the cellphone of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The former Kaduna State governor has pleaded not responsible to all costs, sustaining that his prosecution is politically-motivated.
He was granted stringent bail circumstances which have made it tough for him to satisfy.
Even although many have argued that it stays on the discretion of the judges to grant any defendant bail, others consider that the fees in opposition to him are bailable offences and don’t deserve indefinite detention.
This is why it’s shocking to his supporters that the Court of Appeal additionally denied him bail.
Many who thought the appellate courtroom would grant him bail, are upset.
There are a litany of instances the place the High Court refused to grant a defendant bail and the Court of Appeal reversed the choice. It is all the time anticipated that as a case climb judicial ladder, regardless of the High Court didn’t see, can be corrected by the Court of Appeal. But this has not the case right here.
Now that the courtroom has equally refused to reverse the decrease courtroom’s resolution, what are the opposite choices left for the previous governor? Will he go to the Supreme Court?
