By Abdullahi Alhassan
El-Rufai, through his team of lawyers led by Oluwole Iyamu, SAN, has requested the court to declare that the search warrant issued on 4 February by the Chief Magistrate of the Magistrate’s Court of the FCT, authorising the search and seizure at his residence, was invalid, null, and void.
He urged the court to declare that the search warrant was “null and void for lack of particularity, material drafting errors, ambiguity in execution parameters, overbreadth, and absence of probable cause, thereby constituting an unlawful and unreasonable search in violation of Section 37 of the Constitution.”
El-Rufai also requested the court to declare that “any evidence obtained pursuant to the aforesaid invalid warrant and unlawful search is inadmissible in any proceedings against the applicant, as it was procured in breach of constitutional safeguards.”
The former governor further sought an order of injunction restraining the ICPC and their agents from relying on, using, or tendering any evidence or items seized during the unlawful search in any investigation, prosecution, or proceedings involving him.
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