JOSEPH OLUBUNMI KAYODE OYEWOLE, JCA(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is in respect of an appeal against the decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division delivered on the 19th March, 2024, by B.F.M. NYAKO, J.
The Appellant filed a Notice of Preliminary Objection on the 19th February, 2024 wherein he sought the following orders:
An order of this Honourable Court directing that, before any trial can commence in these proceedings, the Complainant/Respondent (hereafter: Complainant) must cease and desist from her unconstitutional acts
(a) Forcible seizure and photocopying of confidential legal documents brought to the Defendant by his lawyers at the Complainant’s detention facility;
(b) Refusing or preventing the Defendant’s Counsel from taking notes of details of Counsel’s confidential discussions/ consultations with the Defendant during the Counsel’s visitations with the Defendant at the Complainant’s detention facility; AND
(c) Eavesdropping on the Defendant’s confiden…