Court adjourns Melaye’s trial indefinitely

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Maitama, Abuja, presided over by Justice Olasumbo Goodluck, on Thursday adjourned the trial of Senator Dino Melaye before it indefinitely.

The court adjourned the matter in consideration of the health status of the senator representing Kogi West, who has remained bedridden since allegedly jumping out of a moving police van last April, in a bid to avoid being transported from Abuja to Kogi State to face trial.

Melaye, who is also facing trial in a Kogi High Court, is being tried in the FCT High Court over alleged false claim of assassination attempt on his life.

The court had sat on the matter on Wednesday but adjourned it until Thursday May 17 after Melaye failed to appear in court.

The judge had then ordered the defence counsel to take appropriate steps to explain the absence of the defendant in court.

However, when trial on the matter resumed on Thursday, Justice Goodluck, granted a motion for adjournment moved by Mr. Ricky Tarfa (SAN), Melaye’s counsel.

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In granting the motion Justice Goodluck held that, “From the gamut of the entire facts placed before the court, the prosecution did not controvert the fact that the defendant was in the National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.”

He therefore adjourned the case sine die (indefinitely) pending the recovery of Senator Melaye from his illness.

 

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