Justice Oshodi in a decision on the safeguard application recorded by the armed force official maintained the contention of the indictment that he was a flight chance and that he had no connection in Lagos.
The court likewise expressed that Aduba did not put adequate material before it to influence the court to practice its tact to support him.
The judge held, "the safeguard application is thusly denied and is rejected."
The Lagos State government had Arraigned Aduba, Evans and four others under the watchful eye of the judge on August 30, 2017 on two charges of connivance and hijacking.
Other litigant in the cases are :Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okuchukwu Nwachukwu and Chilaka Ifeanyi.
Additionally hearing on the off chance that was however slowed down on Friday as Evans' insight, Olukoya Ogungbeje, was not in court.
The improvement constrained the court to suspend the trial to March 16.
The judge who communicated bitterness over the nonattendance of Ogungbejes noticed that he trusted that the letter composed by the attorney to look for a deferment was not a ploy to baffle the case.
Prior amid the procedures, Justice Oshodi, in a short managing, dispossessed the chance of the fourth litigant, Nwachukwu, to interview the principal indictment witness, Anselem Dunu.
The witness is the senior sibling of the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Limited, Donatus Dunu, who was supposedly grabbed by the group at some point in February this 2017.
The judge's choice to abandon Nwachukwu's possibility of interviewing Dunu depended on Nwachukwu's unwillingness to interrogate the observer independent from anyone else as he was not spoken to by any legal advisor on Friday.
The lead indicting counsel, Ms. Titilayo Shitta-Bey, had asked the court not to enable Nwachukwu's inability to get a legal counselor to stop Friday's procedures.
She stated, "The issue was suspended for continuation of trial, especially interrogation of PW1 by the fourth respondent.
"That the fourth litigant isn't spoken to by guidance ought not keep the interrogation of the observer from going on.
"He has been given abundant open door by this court to get guidance of his decision.
"Under Section 36(6)(d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as corrected), he's qualified for look at the witness either by his advice or himself."
She included that record of the fourth respondent's deferral to get a legal counselor, the case had just endured numerous suspensions.
Insight for the third and fifth litigants, A.A. Uzochukwu and Joseph Otogbolu, separately adjusted themselves to Shitta-Bey, however advise for the sixth respondent, Emmanuel Ochei, encouraged the court to give Nwachukwu additionally effortlessness to get a legal advisor.
The judge, while concurring with Shitta-Bey and others, requested that the court enlistment center inquire as to whether he was prepared to interview the witness or abandon his chance.
Reacting, Nwachukwu stated, "I'm not prepared, My Lord."
He included that his family had masterminded an attorney for him however he was amazed that the legal counselor was not in court.
Reacting, the judge held, "The court does not purchase your reason. It's been a similar reason that you have been giving the court."
Equity Oshodi guided the recorder to inquire as to whether he was prepared to interrogate the observer independent from anyone else, to which he again answered, "I can't interview the witness."
Subsequently, the judge held, "Since the fourth litigant has declined to accept up the open door to interrogate the witness, he has relinquished the opportunity."
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