Erisco Foods critic Chioma Okoli has withdrawn her application challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to hear her trial on alleged cybercrime offences.
Justice Peter Lifu struck out the application on Friday after Okoli declared her intention to withdraw it.
Her lawyer Lilian Ufuasia told the court that the defence was no longer interested in seeking a transfer of the case file to Lagos where she resides, which was not opposed by prosecution counsel, Sidi Anthony.
The Inspector General of Police had filed two-count charges against the embattled reviewer of Erisco Foods tomato paste of criminal defamation alongside Happiness Obas and Don Kashking, both said to be at large.
The defendants were accused of conspiracy to send a message on Facebook through the handle Chioma Egodi Jnr to instigate people against Erisco Foods Limited.
According to the charge, the defendants knew the said “information to be false and with intent to cause annoyance, inconvenience danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to Erisco Foods Limited, the management and members of the family.”
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Okoli was on May 31 admitted to N5 million bail with two sureties.
The case has been adjourned to December 4 for trial.
