Nigeria: Judge Threatens to Revoke Bail of Ex-Governor Accused of N450m Fraud

10 October 2018

Justice Fatima Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Gusau Wednesday threatened to revoke the bail she earlier granted a former governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi, for his failure to appear in court.

Mr Shinkafi, the second defendant in the charge, was arraigned alongside three others; Bashir Yuguda, Ibrahim Mallaha and Aminu Nahuche, for allegedly conniving to collect N450 million from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deizani Alison- Madueke, for the purpose of influencing the 2015 general election.

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