Court Stops Former Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau From traveling.

 Court stops former Kano state governor, Ibrahim Shekarau from traveling abroad.

 Justice Zainab Bags Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano today June 13, 2018 refused an application by a former governor of Kano state Malam Ibrahim Shekarau for the releas of his international passport to enable him travel to Saudi Arabia for lesser haji.

 Report has it that Shekarau approached the court to direct its Deputy chief Registrar to releas his International passport to enable him travel to Saudi Arabia from May 30 to June 23, 2018 for lesser haji.

  In response to the motion, counsel for the respondent, Johnson Ojogbane filled a 9 paragraph counter affidavit opposing the motion. When the case came up today for hearing, counsel to Shekarau Abdul Adamu moved his application and adopted the written address attached to the application in his argument.

 Ojogbene on the other hand moved his 6 paragraph counter affidavit urging the court to refuse the application.

 Justice Abubakar in her ruling held that  "after due consideration of the motion of the defendant application and the counter affidavit of the respondent I deem it unnecessary to release the passport of the defendant applicant as it is one of the conditions in the grant of his bail"  she subsequently refused and dismissed the application for lack of merit.

  Shekarau was arraigned by the EFCC alongside two others, Aminu Bashr Wali and one Mansur Ahmed for allegedly conniving to collect the sum of N950,000,000 part of the $115, 000,000 allegedly distributed by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deizani Alison-Madeke for the purpose of compromising the 2015 general election.