Former Governor Danjuma Goje of Gombe State now a senator is at war with his son-in -law, Abubakar Faruk.

Faruk, Managing Director of Abuja Market Management Limited (AMML), has filed a suit bordering on child custody against the politician and his daughter, Fatima.

In the suit before a Grade 1 area court in Abuja, Faruk is seeking a court order compelling his ex-father-in-law, Goje, and his former wife, Fatima, to return his daughter from London to Nigeria to enable her continue with her studies at Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja.

Faruk disclosed he got married to Fatima Goje under Islamic Law on December 20, 1997 and the marriage was blessed with three children, Fatima, 18; Othman, 15 and Mohammad, 10 before they got divorced on August 31, 2014.

He said his ex-wife thereafter conspired with her father to take his daughter to London, which has put a clog on the daughter’s chance of completing her education in Nigeria as she was already a 300-level Civil Engineering student before she was taken abroad.

Faruk is praying the court for an order restraining the defendants from taking any of his three children outside Abuja without his consent or meddling in their affairs.

Faruk had in a letter dated November 6, 2017, also urged the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to stop the defendants from taking his daughter out of the country.

His lawyer, Mohammed Shuaib added that the claim that the daughter is no more a child, having clocked the adult age of 18 is a non-issue under Islamic Law which states that until a daughter gets married, the father still maintains guardianship over her. The judge adjourned the matter to January 25, 2017.