Former Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami and his son, Abdulaziz, are to face new charges as the federal government has dropped terrorism financing charges against them.
The duo will now face the charges of illegal possession of arms and ammunition.
The FG, through its team of lawyers led by Mr Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, on Wednesday substituted the charges against father and son in a suit filed before a Federal High Court, Abuja.
The FG told the court that the items were found in possession of the Malamis during a raid on their residence in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State.
Following the development, Malami and his son took fresh pleas of not guilty to the five-count amended charge.
The defence lawyer, Mr. Shuaibu Arua, SAN, who did not oppose the withdrawal and substitution of the initial charge, persuaded the court, however, to allow the defendants to retain the bail that was initially granted to them.
The application for the defendants’ bail was not challenged by prosecution counsel.
Consequently, trial Justice Joyce Abdulmalik held that the bail the court granted the defendants on February 27, as well as all the conditions already fulfilled, would subsist.
The court then fixed May 26 and June 15 for trial.
