MARITAL BLUES! HOWATIKU ABUBAKAR’S SON, AMINU, GOT SCHOOLED

Fervour is the weapon of choice of the impotent. Ask Aminu Abubakar. The gangling son of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is currently in shock. Grief tears at his heart because he has been reduced in stature and worth. He is particularly livid and ashamed because it happened in the full glare of the world. Aminu recently suffered the brute end of disgrace and tough luck as his father’s money and political status failed him at crunch time.

For disobeying a court order, Aminu was on Wednesday remanded in the transit cell of

Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

He allegedly disobeyed an order made by Chief Magistrate Kikelomo Ayeye on October 11 over the custody of his child, sixyear-old Amir Abubakar, who he reportedly took from the custody of his estranged wife, Fatimo Bolori.

Bolori reportedly arrived their daughter’s school in Parkview estate but could not go with the child after Aminu stormed the school with his police escorts.

The estranged couple took their beef to the street in Parkview estate as they shouted at each other for over one hour before the DPO attached to the Divisional headquarters in Ikoyi arrived the scene. At the end, the child went in the company of his mother in the DPO’s car, while Aminu drove down to the Divisional headquarters with his police escort where they went for a dialogue with their lawyers.

The estranged couple who got married in Borno State in 2007, enjoyed a five-year marriage before their union was dissolved by a Sharia Court in Maiduguri.

The children were living with their mother, Fatimo, with an arrangement that they should be allowed to spend their vacation with their father.

However, when the children were on holidays in 2013, Aminu requested that they should be released to him to travel abroad for vacation and thereafter, refused to let them return to their mother.

Following their separation and battle over their children, on October 11, Bolori secured a court injunction to take custody of their daughter upon reports that her children who had been with their father, were lacking motherly care.

When the case came up for the discharge of “Emergency, Evacuation/Protection Order” made by the court, the court was informed that the parties were planning to settle out of court.

In response, Bolori’s lawyer, Nwabuzor Okoh, denied receiving any notification from the respondent to settle out of court. Consequently, Chief Magistrate Ayeye cited Atiku for contempt for disobeying court order issued on October 11. She ordered that the respondent should be remanded in transit cell and the case stood down pending when he would produce the boy. He was later released and the children have been released to their mother. Aminu’s detention serves as a big blow to his reputation and a dent to his father’s name.