Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday dismissed an application by Ecobank Nigeria Limited asking him to disqualify himself from a suit filed against the bank by Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.
The judge, who stressed that no one could intimidate him, described Ecobank’s application as frivolous and dismissed it.
The bank had, in a letter to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, alleged that Justice Idris had been biased against it and sought the transfer of the case to another judge.