Valentine Ashi, a judge of the
federal capital territory high court in Abuja, is dead.
The judge was said to have died
at a hospital in Abuja on Thursday. He reportedly suffered a liver ailment.
According to a court official,
the judge’s family informed the court about his death on Friday.
Called to bar in 1987, Ashi
served a lecturer at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja campus, in 2001 until he
was appointed a judge in FCT on July 15, 2010.
The Cross River-born judge had
made the headlines in December 2018 when he ordered the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Department of State Services (DSS) and other
security agencies to arrest Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of
petroleum resources, within 72 hours.
He issued a warrant for Madueke’s
arrest to enable the EFCC apprehend and arraign her for alleged financial
crimes in Nigeria.
In 2014, Ashi had also barred
former President Olusegun Obasanjo from publishing his autobiography, My Watch.
In 2016, the judge sacked Ali
Modu Sheriff , former governor of Borno state, as acting chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing the process that led to his
emergence as illegal.
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