A Federal High Court in Abuja has taken steps to issue an arrest warrant against Buhari’s close associate  the governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma should he fail to show up in court on April 18.

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) had in October 2018 recorded two-count criminal allegation against the senator yet had been unfit to have him go to court to request the charge.

Legal advisor to SPIP, Celcius Ukpong, on Friday, related endeavors made by his office since filing the charge, to make Uzodinma respect court’s hearing notification, but had been to no avail.

Ukpong told the court that the SPIP was additionally researching the Senator speaking to Imo West in regard of a $10million contract for the digging of Calabar Port, which he and his organization purportedly neglected to execute in the wake of being paid by the government.

He blamed a case by Uzodinma’s attorney, Ogueju Dike, that the senator, who was the competitor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship race in Imo State, was abroad on medical grounds.

Ukpong said it was inconceivable for Uzodinma to legitimately go out of the nation without being captured.

He said having bounced the authoritative bail conceded him by SPIP, he has since been put on watch list and would be captured whenever he endeavors to leave the nation.

Ukpong then asked the court to arrange capture of Uzodinma for purposely declining to go to court notwithstanding being presented with the charge and a few hearing takes note.

Be that as it may, Ogueju Dike blamed Ukpong’s case and blamed him for unduly depicting his customer as a criminal.

He said the case under the steady gaze of the court was in connection to charge of non-assertion of advantages. He said the arraignment’s reference to an indicated contract was unessential.

Ogueju Dike said his customer didn’t know about the charge on schedule and that he (Uzodinma) was as of now outside the nation on wellbeing ground.

He supplicated the court to suspend the case to a later date to empower his client go to court.

Ogueju Dike undertook to guarantee that Uzodinma was in court on the following dismissed date.

Administering, Justice Okon Abang said he would consider the energetic supplication by legal advisor to defendant and his endeavor to create the litigant in court by suspending the case to a later date for him to go to court.

Justice Abang said the arraignment was at freedom to rehash his application for a seat warrant against the respondent should he neglect to go to court at the following dismissed date.

The judge, who noticed that nobody is exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else, dismissed to April 18 for arraignment.