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A magistrate court sitting at the Tinubu area of Lagos Island has ordered the release of Aminu, son of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.

The judge had earlier ruled that Aminu should be remanded in a cell for disobeying an order of the court.

On October 11, the court asked Aminu produce the boy pending the hearing of the case.

When the matter came up on Wednesday, Aminu’s lawyer informed the magistrate that the parties were making plans to settle the matter out of court.

But Ethel Okoh, counsel to the estranged wife, denied knowledge of any out of court settlement.

After this, Kikelomo Ayeye, the magistrate, directed that the son of the top politician be detained pending the production of his six-year-old son who he allegedly kept away from his estranged wife, Fatimo Bolori.

The court, however, released him after the boy was produced while Fatimo was granted custody of the minor for 10 days.

Ayeye adjourned till November 1 for the determination of the full custody of the two children.

Fatimo and Aminu were divorced in 2011. Their union produced two children, who were staying with their mother after the marriage crashed.

Aminu, however, during one of the school holidays in 2013 requested that they should be released to him for a vacation after which he refused to let the kids return to their mother.