Abuja — Trial of Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the President, Yusuf Tilde, over unlawful dispossession of a property belonging to one Abdulkarim Bello Umar, has assumed a different dimension, as the trial Judge discontinued further hearing of the case, following alleged unethical practice by Mr Malik A. Aikhunegbe, Counsel representing Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice.

The Judge, Justice Sunday Aladetoyinbo, said Aikhunegbe, who was supposed to appear in court to explain content of his four-page letter to the Court, dated May 20, 2009, where he allegedly castigated the court, has failed to do so.

The Judge, who was visibly angry with the content of the letter, said: "I wanted him to come and explain why he wrote the letter to me. I don't know how old he is, but I am almost 30 years at the Bar. I am not his age mate in the first instance, he is not suppose to write that kind of letter to me."

Aladetoyinbo said what Aikhunegbe would have done was to file a counter affidavit to the Plaintiff's application for abridgment of time and accelerated hearing, instead of writing "such a rude letter to me. Malik is exhibiting that kind of behaviour, because he is a Special Assistant to the AGF and Minister of Justice.

"The Court will discontinue further hearing on the matter and throw back the matter to Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory for re-assignment to another Judge, but Malik will be reported to the appropriate authorities for disciplinary action over the letter," he said.

Earlier, ounsel from the office of the AGF, Daniel Chukwuemeka Onyeaka, who represented Aikhunegbe, told the Court that Aikhunegbe and the three defendants in the suit could not make it to the Court, because of the exigencies of their job.

He said Aikhunegbe's inability to be at the Court yesterday was not an act of disobedience to the Court, but that he was engaged in other official matter outside Abuja.

It would be recalled that the AGF had in a motion on notice, prayed the trial Judge to disqualify himself from hearing the case and to remit the case file to the Chief Judge of the High Court of the FCT for re-assignment to another Judge, for hearing and determination.

According to the motion, Justice Aladetoyinbo has a grouse with the AGF, the Federal Capital Development Authourity (FCDA) and Minister of the FCT joined as defendants in the suit he instituted in an FCT High Court, for alleged revocation of the title of his properties by government.

The motion stated that the trial Judge, in his suit against the defendants, is seeking various and sundry reliefs in respect of different properties, which he claimed lawfully belong to him.