Deji Adeyanju has been remanded in prison custody until 6th February 2019 by the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Kano.
The court on Friday took the plea of Adeyanju who is charged with complicity in series of murders since the 2000s.
The said that it lacked jurisdiction to hear murder charges against Deji Adeyanju who had been arrested since Dec. 13.
Deji Adeyanju stood trial on similar charges between 2005 and 2009 but was discharged and acquitted by the Kano State High Court.
Adeyanju was arrested and detained for five days in Abuja before he was moved to Kano.
Chief Magistrates Hassan Fagge had on December 19, ordered his remand and scheduled today for a bail hearing.
But when the court opened at about 9:42 a.m. Friday, Mr Fagge said he had determined that he lacked the power to hear the homicide charges brought against Mr Deji by the police.
Adeyanju was moved to Kano Central Prison.
Only a few weeks ago, Deji was released by the police, hours after police took him out of Keffi Prison, where he was remanded on the orders of a Karshi Magistrate Court in a separate charge which case was adjourned till 21 January next year.
The police had charged him and two others, Daniel Abobama and Boma Williams, for posts the police considered defamatory and criminal.
He was arrested on November 28, 2018 while leading a protest to demand the neutrality of the Police in the forthcoming general election.