{"id":83105,"date":"2026-02-27T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83105"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:04:18","slug":"breaking-judge-withdraws-from-el-rufais-fundamental-rights-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/27\/breaking-judge-withdraws-from-el-rufais-fundamental-rights-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Judge Withdraws from El-Rufai\u2019s Fundamental Rights Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A judge of the FCT High Court has withdrawn from the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Hussaini Belgore recused himself from the matter on Friday for undisclosed reasons, paving the way for the case to be reassigned and delaying further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai had sued the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, the Inspector-General of Police and others, alleging a violation of his constitutional rights following the search of his Abuja residence. He is seeking damages and declarations that his rights were breached.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Department of State Services has filed criminal charges against him at the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged unlawful interception of communications. The case was adjourned to April 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Legal observers say reassignment of the fundamental rights suit may take weeks before hearings resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A judge of the FCT High Court has withdrawn from the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Justice Hussaini Belgore recused himself from the matter on Friday for undisclosed reasons, paving the way for the case to be reassigned and delaying further proceedings. El-Rufai had sued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-83105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83107,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions\/83107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}