Court remands ex-CCT chairman Danladi Umar over alleged abuse of office
An FCT High Court has ordered that Danladi Umar, former chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), be held at the Kuje Correctional Centre while it decides his application for bail.
Danladi Umar appeared on Thursday before Justice Peter Kekemeke at the court’s Maitama division to answer a four-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which alleges that he used his position as tribunal head to secure an undue advantage for himself. He pleaded not guilty to every count.
After the plea, the EFCC’s counsel, Christopher Mshelia, asked the court to set a trial date and to keep Umar in custody in the meantime. His defence team said a bail application had already been filed and urged the court to hear it, but prosecutors countered that they had only just been served and needed time to respond.
Kekemeke ordered that Umar be remanded and adjourned the case to July 15, 2026, for the bail application to be heard.
Umar led the CCT for several years before President Bola Tinubu named Mainasara Umar Kogo as his replacement in July 2024. Months later, both chambers of the national assembly called on the president to remove him. He had earlier drawn public criticism in 2021 over a widely shared video showing him assaulting a security guard at a mall in Abuja.
