After a long legal battle between former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar's son Aminu Atiku and his ex wife Fatima Bolori over who would take custody of their two beautiful kids Amirah, 8, and Aamir Atiku, 7, yesterday being Wednesday the 10th of January, the Magistrate Court sitting in the Tinubu area of Lagos finally granted Fatima, the estranged wife of Aminu Atiku, full custody of their children.
It was reported that Chief Magistrate K.B Ayeye ruled that the children Amirah Atiku and Aamir Atiku, should be with their mother Fatima Bolori.
This verdict didn't go down well with Aminu as TheNation has reported that there was drama at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon following the disappearance of Aamir Atiku, the 7-year-old son of Aminu Atiku and his ex-wife, Unmi Fatima Bolori.
The boy’s mother claimed that Aminu, son of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, snatched Aamir and drove off with him. The alleged incident occurred at 1:59pm, minutes after Aminu lost custody of his daughter Ameera Atiku, 9, and Aamir 7, to Bolori.
Chief Magistrate Ayeye granted Bolori full custody of the children after Aminu failed to file a response to her application for child custody. The court ordered Aminu to pay Bolori N250, 000 monthly for the upkeep of the children, beginning from this month. .
It also ordered Aminu to carry out medical insurance on the children among others. Bolori’s November 2017 application for child custody proposed a nine-point ‘statement of arrangement’ for the children. .
It was argued by her counsel, Gloria Albert-Ekpe (Mrs.) and Ethel Okoh from Festus Keyamo Chambers. The applicant prayed the court to order Aminu to pay her N300,000,00 monthly as feeding and maintenance allowance for the kids’ upkeep and N1million yearly as their clothing allowance. .
Bolori also sought an order restraining Aminu from taking the kids “outside the shores of Nigeria for any purpose whatsoever” without her consent. At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, neither Aminu nor his legal team was present to announce appearance. .
When Aminu and his legal team eventually arrived at the courtroom at around 1pm, the proceedings were practically over. He was observed laughing and playing with both kids in the courtroom. .
At about 1:45pm, he consulted with his lawyers and walked out of the courtroom. According to Bolori’s counsel Okoh, Aminu “snatched” his son from the mum, locked him in his car before driving off”.
Bolori, daughter of Maiduguri businessman Alhaji Bukar Bolori, and Aminu got married in Ghana in 2007, but they separated in 2011.
Fatima Bolori and her estranged husband Aminu Atiku got married in Borno State in 2007, enjoyed a five-year marriage before their union was dissolved by a Sharia Court in Maiduguri in 2011.
Last year, the ex-couple clashed at their daughter’s school in Greenwood school in Parkview Estate, Ikoyi over the custody of their children, which LIB exclusively covered and reported.
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