An Abuja High Court has ordered that the Chairman of the Goodluck Support Group, Aminu Abubakar, and one Mr Okechukwu Geoffrey be remanded in prison custody over an allegation of blackmail. The accused persons were on Tuesday arraigned on a three-count charge of extortion and conspiracy to extort, by ‎ the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

However, the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges when read to them. The prosecution counsel, George Lawal, then asked the court for a date to commence trial.
However, counsel to the accused persons, E. A. Egbebu, informed the court that he had filed a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter and that the charges against the accused persons be quashed. But Lawal objected to the application on the grounds that it was premature.
In his reply, Egbebu argued that since the motion was challenging the jurisdiction, the court was expected to hear it before the arraignment of the accused persons.

But the trial judge, who is also the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Ishaq Bello, rejected the defence's argument that the court should hear the motion challenging jurisdiction before the accused persons take their plea.