Oduah To Know Fate On Feb. 2 About N255m BMWs

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• Tuesday, 26 Jan 2016 12:19 PM

Former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, will on February 2, know her fate as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos is set to deliver judgement in a suit she filed seeking to stop her prosecution over the alleged 2 armoured BMW cars purchased for N255m when she was a minister in 2013.
In the suit filed in July 2015, Oduah prayed the court to bar the Federal Government from investigating her over the vehicles.
Oduah, on August 26, 2015 obtained an order of preliminary injunction from Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos, restraining the defendants, the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from taking any action against her pending the final determination of the suit.
The judgement was initially slated for Monday, January 25, by Justice Okon Abang, but could not proceed owing to the transfer of the presiding judge from Lagos to the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Justice Abang, who was moved from Lagos to Abuja early this month, had on December 1, 2015 fixed January 25 for judgement in the case after taking arguments from all the parties in the suit.
But erstwhile registrars to the judge, told The Punch that Justice Abang would return to Lagos on February 2, to deliver the judgment.
This was confirmed by Abang on Tuesday, January 26, when he lashed out at the prosecution in the trial of National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, over the failure of the Nigerian Prison Service, NPS, to bring in the accused as at 9am, forcing him to postpone the trial by an hour.
Abang said he had a timeline for the trial, as he had to round in up to meet a case in Lagos, presumably Oduah’s.
Oduah has maintained that the Ministry of Aviation did not buy the said BMW, saying the vehicle was on a lease to the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, a parastatal under the Ministry.