There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday during the trial of a 30-year-old pharmacist, Solomon Akuma.
Akuma is standing trial on a trumped-up charge bordering on terrorism after he was arrested over a Twitter comment against President Muhammadu Buhari.
He is being prosecuted after his arrest on April 2, 2020, in Abia State for tweeting that he would “pay a Russian sniper to eliminate (President Muhammadu) Buhari and (Abba) Kyari (Buhari’s former Chief of Staff)” in response to a Twitter post asking “if $1m hits your account, your next move?”
The defendant on Wednesday asked the trial judge, Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo to disqualify herself from the case over alleged bias.
Akuma told the court through his lawyer, Emmanuel Ukaegbu that he no longer has confidence in the court presided over by Giwa-Ogunbanjo and would not get justice.
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He, therefore, asked her to recuse herself from the case.
The matter was abruptly adjourned when the defence counsel told the court that they had filed a petition before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court alleging bias on the part of the Giwa-Ogunbanjo.
He said there were a lot of statutory and constitutional issues that had happened since the judge delivered her judgement in the matter on November 22, 2021 which may not allow them to get justice in the case.
He said they had lost confidence in her and would like her to recuse herself from the case.
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