Evans through his counsel Olukoya Ogungbeje on Friday brought two applications challenging the competence of the two fresh charges and seeking to quash them.
The Lagos State DPP had on Monday attempted to arraign Evans and others on the two fresh charges, but the move was resisted by Evans’ lawyer, Ogungbeje, who contended that the charges were incompetent, saying he had filed two applications seeking to quash them.
Moving the applications on Friday, Ogungbeje described the new charges as an abuse of court processes, contending that some of the counts bordering on kidnapping were merely a duplication of the ones filed before Justice Oshodi in Ikeja.
“Counts 4 and 5 constitute a gross abuse of court processes as similar charges on the same offence of kidnapping had earlier been filed by the prosecution against the same first defendant in charge numbers LD/5962C/2017 and LD/5970C/2017,” Ogungbeje said.
After listening to Ogungbeje, the judge adjourned till November 10 to rule on the applications.
Evans is facing similar charges before an Ikeja High Court where he pleaded guilty but later changed his plea to not guilty.
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