Court to decide Atiku”s application tomorrow

Justice Kazeem Alogba, sitting at a Lagos High Court in Igbosere will on Thursday rule on an application by Mr Aminu Atiku, a son of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, seeking to suspend his children’s N250,000 monthly maintenance fee. The court fixed the date today after taking arguments from Oyinkan Badejo, Atiku’s counsel and Ethel […]

Justice Kazeem Alogba, sitting at a Lagos High Court in Igbosere will on Thursday rule on an application by Mr Aminu Atiku, a son of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, seeking to suspend his children’s N250,000 monthly maintenance fee.

The court fixed the date today after taking arguments from Oyinkan Badejo, Atiku’s counsel and Ethel Okoh, counsel for his ex-wife, Ms. Ummi Fatima Bolori.

Neither Atiku nor Bolori was present in court.

In the suit, Atiku is seeking to upturn a magistrates’ court decision awarding custody of the ex-couple’s daughter, Ameera, 11 and son, Aamir, 7 to Bolori.

He is also seeking a stay of execution on the N250,000 monthly maintenance fee, on the ground, among others, that it is “onerous”.

At the commencement of proceedings on Wednesday, Badejo contended that the N250,000 was unnecessary because Atiku was satisfying all the needs of his children.