Nigeria: Court Vacates Arrest Warrant Against Amaju Pinnick, Others

17 January 2019

An Abuja Chief Magistrate District Court 11 sitting at Wuse Zone 2, has put in abeyance the warrant of arrest it had issued previously to the Special Presidential Investigative Panel (SPIP) headed by Chief Okoi Obono-Obla against the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick and four others. The four others are the federation's two vice presidents, Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko, a board member, Ahmed Yusuf and Dr. Sanusi Mohammed, who is the board's General Secretary.

The NFF had challenged the warrant for its officials' arrest, saying it was obtained erroneously as it was ultra vires the enabling law establishing the SPIP.

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