In an ex-parte motion filed by Michael Aondoakaa (SAN) on behalf of Yari, Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja issued the ruling on Monday.

In addition, the presiding judge barred the Department of State Services (DSS) from detaining the senator-elect while the motion on notice was being heard and decided.

At the next adjourned date, Okorowo ordered the EFCC, ICPC, and DSS to provide cause on why the prayers sought on the motion ex-parte should not be granted.

“The respondents are however restrained from detaining the applicant until the return date for the order to show cause,” the judge ruled and adjourned the matter until June 8.

Through his team of lawyers led by Aondoakaa, Yari had filed the ex-parte motion marked FHC/ANJ/CS/785/23 asking the court to restrain the EFCC, ICPC, and DSS from arresting him.

In the motion dated and filed on June 2, Yari sued the EFCC, ICPC, and DSS as 1st to 3rd defendants respectively.

He prayed the court to stop the three agencies from arresting and/or threatening to arrest and detain him to prevent him from participating in the proclamation of the 10th Senate by President Bola Tinubu on June 13.

Yari, who gave 15 grounds on why the application should be granted, averred that he was desirous of contesting the position of the president of the senate in accordance with the 1999 constitution (as amended), and pursuant to the senate standing orders 2022 (amended).

Regardless of party affiliation, he said that the electorate and the general public had given his campaign for the position overwhelming support.

Yari said that some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were concerned about the support he has continued to receive across party lines and have resorted to using the respondents and their agents to harass him and make false arrest and detention threats in the run-up to the first sitting of the senate, when nominations and the election of presiding officers would be contested.