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  • Court dismisses Fani-Kayode’s involuntary statement claim

    The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed a claim by a former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s claim that extrajudicial statements he made at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were not voluntary.

    He disowned the statements during his trial for money laundering involving about N4.6billion and prayed Justice Rilwan Aikawa not to admit them in evidence.

    EFCC charged, Fani-Kayode, Director of Publicity of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015, along with former minister of state for finance Mrs Nenadi Usman.

    They were arraigned with former Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) Chairman and ex-Chairman of Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mr. Yusuf Danjuma, and a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Limited.

    The other defendants also disowned their statements.

    The defence counsel, Messrs Ferdinand Orbih (SAN), Norrison Quakers (SAN) and Clement Onwuenwuenor, urged the judge to order a trial-within-trial to test the statements’ voluntariness.

    But, the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, maintained that the statements were voluntarily made, adding that there was no need for a trial-within-trial.

    Ruling yesterday, Justice Aikawa agreed with the prosecution and dismissed the objections.

    He held that a trial-within-trial is only necessary where a statement sought to be admitted “is manifestly confessional”.

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    “In the present case, none of the statements is confessional. A trial-within-trial is therefore unnecessary,” he ruled.

    Justice Aikawa said the statements complied with the provisions of Section 17 (1) and (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), which provides that someone must be present to witness a statement.

    The defendants were accused of violating the Money Laundering Act by indirectly retaining N300million, N400million and N800million, all proceeds of corruption, according to EFCC.

    Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Nenadi Esther Usman, Femi Fani-Kayode, Danjuman Yusuf and Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd on or about the 8th day of January, 2015, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court conspired amongst yourselves to indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.”

    Fani-Kayode was also accused of making a cash transaction of N24 million with one Olubode Oke, said to still be at large, on February 12, 2015 “to Paste Poster Company of 125, Lewis Street, Lagos Island,” contrary to the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act.

    The defendants pleaded not guilty.

    Justice Aikawa adjourned till July 4 for continuation of trial.

  • June 12 annulment: Kingibe cannot rewrite history, says Fani-Kayode

    A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode on Thursday warned a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation,  Amb. Babagana Kingibe against re-writing history on the annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential Election.

    He said ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo was not part of the military administration of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida and could not have been part of the annulment.

    He said it was the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha that insisted on the annulment at gunpoint.

    Fani-Kayode gave the caution in a statement in Abuja against the backdrop of the allegation by Kingibe that Obasanjo was one of the architects of the annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential Election.

    The statement said: “I have immense respect for Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and I congratulate and commend him for the great honor that was bestowed upon him and Chief MKO Abiola by the Buhari administration.

    “I also commend President Muhammadu Buhari for doing the right thing and not only making June 12th our authentic Democracy Day but also naming the National Stadium after Abiola.

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    “However the assertion that President Olusegun Obasanjo had any hand in the annulment of the June 12th election is a lie from the pit of hell.

    “We must not allow anyone to indulge in historical revisionism or re-write history. Obasanjo was not a member of General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration and neither did he have any hand in that monstrous perfidy and conspiracy against democracy and the Nigerian people.”

    The ex-minister accused Abacha of insisting on the annulment at gunpoint.

    The statement added: “As a matter of fact the man that insisted on the annulment of the June 12th election literally at gunpoint, Gen. Sani Abacha, was the same person that set up Obasanjo in a trumped up coup plot a few years later, jailed him and attempted to murder him with a lethal injection whilst he was in jail.

    “The same Abacha was responsible for the murder of Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’adua when he was also falsely accused and jailed for coup-plotting.

    “It is the greatest irony of history and fate that the same Kingibe that has made this grevious allegation against Obasanjo and who was a protegee of both Obasanjo and Shehu Musa Yar’adua ended up serving in a Government that was led by the same Sani Abacha who not only insisted on the annulment of Abiola’s mandate but also jailed and was intent on killing them both.

    “It is easy to see and discern who the real villain and traitor is between Obasanjo and Kingibe in this matter. One stood for democracy whilst the other joined and collaborated with those that literally killed it”.

  • Fani-Kayode opposes EFCC’s bid to tender cheque exhibits

    Mr Norrison Quakers (SAN), counsel to former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Wednesday opposed a bid by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to tender some cheques as exhibits in the former minister’s money laundering trial.

    Fani-Kayode, Director of Publicity of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015, is on trial with former minister of state for finance Mrs. Nenadi Usman at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

    They were charged with former Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) Chairman and ex-Chairman of Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Mr. Yusuf Danjuma, and a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Limited.

    The four were accused of violating the Money Laundering Act by indirectly retaining N300million, N400million and N800million, all proceeds of corruption, according to EFCC.

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    The prosecution said they allegedly committed the offence, to which they pleaded not guilty, between January 8 and March 25, 2015 ahead of the 2015 general elections.

    An EFCC operative, Shuaibu Shahu, told Justice Rilwan Aikawa that part of the alleged laundered sums was transferred from the Ministry of External Affairs.

    For instance, he said N800 million was transferred from the ministry to Jointtrust Dimentions on January 16, 2015.

    He said there was no evidence that the firm executed any contract for the ministry.

    Shuaibu tendered some cheques used for the alleged fraudulent transactions.

    But the prosecution’s bid to tender more cheques was resisted by Quakers, who said he needed to confirm if they were part of the proof of evidence.

    Justice Aikawa adjourned until Thursday.

     

  • Nnamdi Kanu: Court okays suit seeking trial of Fani-Kayode, Abaribe

    A Federal High Court in Abuja has given permission for the commencement of a suit seeking to compel the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to investigate and prosecute former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and others over their alleged involvement in how Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) escaped from the country.

    Justice John Tsoho gave the permission on Friday after listening to applicant’s lawyer, Oghenovo Otemu, who moved a motion ex-parte for leave to commence an action for order of mandamus.

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    The judge said he was convinced that the applicant, Isaiah Ayugu, could proceed to properly apply for the order sought.

    Justice Tsoho ordered Ayugu to file a motion on notice to that effect and serve the respondents before the next date of November 22 this year.

    Ayugu, in the ex-parte motion, said he was concerned about the turn of event and the damage the scandal about Kanu’s disappearance and the claim that the Nigerian sate was responsible have had on the nation’s image both at home and abroad.

    He listed the Director General of the SSS, the SSS, the Inspector general of Police (IGP) and the NPF as respondents in suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1254/18.

    Ayugu argued that by recently revelation that Kanu was in Israel, it was evident that Fani-Kayode, Abaribe, Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and others, who had accused the Nigerian Army of being behind Kanu’s disappearance, knew about the IPOB leader’s escape from Nigeria.

    The plaintiff stated, in a supporting affidavit, “that the said Nnamdi Kanu, the so called self-acclaimed leader of IPOB, da group that has long been proscribed and designated a terrorist group, is alive and was seen in Israel from where he called a world press conference and made a live broadcast of his new and renewed agenda for his group.

    “In the broadcast, Kanu boasted that he will bring ‘hell to Nigeria.’ It is therefore clear that, whilst Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,  Tochukwu Uchendu, Emmanuel Shallow Ben, Emmanuel Kanu, Uchechi Kanu, leaders of Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia state, the different civil liberty organisations and media practitioners and so many others too numerous to mention were making several dangerous claims that Nnamdi Kanu has been killed, abducted or being held by the Army,  they were aware that he was actually out of the country, by their collective or respective assistance, from where he resurfaced in video clips of him praying in Israel and subsequent video broadcast.

    “Because Senator Abaribe took Nnamdi Kanu on bail, the case against Nnamdi Kanu has not seen the light of the day as Nnamdi Kanu has now jumped bail.”

    The plaintiff said he intend to apply for an order of mandamus, mandating the respondents “to immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu from Nigeria when, in fact, the Nigerian Army was accused of abducting, arresting, kidnapping, killing and assassinating him.

    “An order mandating the respondents to prosecute all persons suspected or indicted of involvement in aiding Nnamdi Kanu to evade justice.”

    “An order mandating the respondents to investigate and prosecute Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Femi Fani-Kayode, Tochukwu Uchendu, Emmanuel Shallow Ben, Emmanuel Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and all those who worked together to propagate and spread the inciting lies and falsehood that Nnamdi Kanu was abducted, arrested, kidnapped, detained, killed and assassinated by the Nigerian military, when indeed they were well aware of Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts, because they played roles in helping Nnamdi Kanu disappear from Nigeria.”

  • IPOB: Lawyer seeks Fani-Kayode, Abaribe’s probe over Kanu’s escape

    The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to mandate the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to investigate and prosecute former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and others over their alleged involvement in how Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) escaped from the country.

    The request formed part of the reliefs in a suit filed, on October 31, this year, by a lawyer, Isaiah Ayugu, who said he was concerned about the turn of event and the damage the scandal about Kanu’s disappearance and the claim that the Nigerian sate was responsible have had on the nation’s image both at home and abroad.

    The suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1254/18, has the Director General of the SSS, the SSS, the Inspector general of Police (IGP) and the NPF as respondents.

    Ayugu argued that by recently revelation that Kanu was in Israel, it was evident that Fani-Kayode, Abaribe, Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and others, who had accused the Nigerian Army of being behind Kanu’s disappearance, knew about the IPOB leader’s escape from Nigeria.

    The plaintiff stated, in a supporting affidavit, “that the said Nnamdi Kanu, the so called self-acclaimed leader of IPOB, da group that has long been proscribed and designated a terrorist group, is alive and was seen in Israel from where he called a world press conference and made a live broadcast of his new and renewed agenda for his group.

    “In the broadcast, Kanu boasted that he will bring ‘hell to Nigeria.’ It is therefore clear that, whilst Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ifeanyi Ejiofor,  Tochukwu Uchendu, Emmanuel Shallow Ben, Emmanuel Kanu, Uchechi Kanu, leaders of Afaraukwu community in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia state, the different civil liberty organisations and media practitioners and so many others too numerous to mention were making several dangerous claims that Nnamdi Kanu has been killed, abducted or being held by the Army,  they were aware that he was actually out of the country, by their collective or respective assistance, from where he resurfaced in video clips of him praying in Israel and subsequent video broadcast. 

    “Because Senator Abaribe took Nnamdi Kanu on bail, the case against Nnamdi  Kanu has not seen the light of the day as Nnamdi  Kanu has now jumped bail.” 

    The plaintiff particularly seeks an order of mandamus, mandating the respondents “to immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu from Nigeria when, in fact, the Nigerian Army was accused of abducting, arresting, kidnapping, killing and assassinating him.

    “An order mandating the respondents to prosecute all persons suspected or indicted of involvement in aiding Nnamdi Kanu to evade justice.”

    The plaintiff also seeks “an order mandating the respondents to investigate and prosecute Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, Femi Fani-Kayode, Tochukwu Uchendu, Emmanuel Shallow Ben, Emmanuel Kanu, Ifeanyi Ejiofor and all those who worked together to propagate and spread the inciting lies and falsehood that Nnamdi Kanu was abducted, arrested, kidnapped, detained, killed and assassinated by the Nigerian military, when indeed they were well aware of Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts, because they played roles in helping Nnamdi Kanu disappear from Nigeria.”

    The case is yet to be assigned to any judge for hearing.

  • Delta APC chides Fani-Kayode over derogating statements on Buhari

    Delta State Chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, Prince Christopher Akpojotor Agaga has lambasted former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode over unguided statements issued against President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the Buhari is the best president the country has ever had since the inception of democracy in Nigeria.

    Agaga who made this statement while reacting to a report in the national dailies with headline: OBJ, IBB, Jonathan, others not enemies of Nigeria, credited to Fani-Kayode, said the statement is not only a plot to smear the good name of President Buhari but to put the ex-leaders in conflict against the present APC administration.

    On the report making around by Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo alleging Buhari’s administration of plan to frame him up and arrest him, Agaga said this should be sink to the mind Fani-Kayode that it was widely refuted by the presidency  and expressed what Fani-Kayode intend achieving by this publication.

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    While saying that Buhari’s government is one of the peaceful administrations so far, Agaga said Buhari has been in cordial relationship with the past leaders except those who has seen his corruption crusade as witchhunting because of their secret deals which they not want the APC government to bring to the open.

    Agaga who reminded Kayode of the past administration of former President Obasanjo, said, “If the truth must be told there is no comparison between President Buhari and Obasanjo’s administration in the area of performance, applauding Buhari’s government of having done well in the past three years of his administration.

    “Kayode while serving under Obasanjo was blinded to the many injustices and abuses unleashed by his master on hapless and innocent Nigerians. Because he no longer enjoys all the privileges and affluence associated with power, he has suddenly become a defender of human rights which himself and his master denied people of.

    “Nigerians will recall that under Obasanjo, the people of Odi in Bayelsa state were massacred in thousands and hundreds of people were gruesome murder in Zaki Biam in Benue State, but what we have witnessed so far under Buhari are people with indifferent actions with the propensity for crimes which was not what the president swore oath to defend.

    “Such crimes committed by Obasanjo are enough to warrant his arraignment before international criminal court of justice, yet he and his lieutenants bandy credentials that he is perceived by his actions to lack in and outside government.

    “Several elected governors were harassed and hounded for holding and expressing views which the laws of the country vested them with. From Alamiesegha, Ibori, Ngige, Fayose, Tinubu, Dariye etc who had battles with Obasanjo for merely exercising powers duly delegated  to them to IGP Balogun who was disgraced in the worst humiliating circumstance over an unsubstantiated suspicion.

    “Even against the orders of court, the people of Lagos state were denied their local government allocations for most of the tenure of Obasanjo in reaction to an action lawfully taken by governor Tinubu.

    “The pains the people of Lagos had to contend with during those period the constitution was being brazenly raped did not prick the conscience of Obasanjo and his lieutenants who out of idleness and envy now parade themselves as crusaders and apostles of human rights.

  • Femi Fani-Kayode welcomes triplets

    EX-BEAUTY queen Precious  Chikwendu and wife of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has taken the Osun State born politician to cloud nine.

    Precious, fondly called Snow White, has added triplets to the Fani-Kayode’s clan.

    She gave birth in the early hours on Friday which incidentally was her birthday.

    The highly elated father took to social media to share the good news. Saying,the three sons and their mother are doing well.

    Fani-Kayode had all girls in his previous marriages. And the former beauty queen had earlier given him a boy.

  • Money laundery: Bank official gives evidence against Usman, Fani-Kayode

    Money laundery: Bank official gives evidence against Usman, Fani-Kayode

    More revelations were made on Thursday at a Federal High Court in Lagos in the ongoing trial of a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman, who is facing a corruption charge.

    A bank official and witness told the court how N250 million was transferred into an  ex-minister’s account from a company.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC )  is prosecuting Usman  alongside Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and the Chairman of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation.

    Others are a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Yusuf Danjuma and a company — Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had slammed a 17-count charge bordering on laundering of N4.6 billion.

    They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and were were granted bails.

    At the resumed hearing of the case on Thursday,  Counsel to the third and fourth accused, Mr Clement Onwuenwuno, began cross-examination of the second prosecution witness, Mr Teslim Ajuwon, who was still under oath.

    Onwuenwunor ask the witness to confirm his position in the bank and he confirmed that he was a compliance officer.

    Onwuenwunor: Are you the relationship officer or the account officer?

    Witness: Neither.

    Onwuenwunor asked the witness if he made any statement at EFCC and he responded in the negative.

    Onwuenwunor: Before your bank’s letter to the EFCC in February 2016, did your bank raise any query on the account of the fourth accused?

    Witness: I am not sure.

    Onwuenwunor: Who is a signatory to the fourth accused bank account (exhibit eight)?

    Witness: Mr Yusuf Danjuma, the third accused.

    Onwuenwunor: In your bank, is it wrong for the third accused to instruct transfer of money to any person?

    Witness: It is his mandate.

    No re-examination was taken, and the PW2 was discharged.

    The EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, called the third witness, Mrs Shedlis Gana, who swore on the Holy Bible before proceeding to give her testimony.

    Gana told the court that she was the branch manager of the Ghana Street branch of Zenith Bank, where the second and fourth accuseds’ accounts are domiciled.

    When asked if she knew all the accused, she responded in the affirmative for the accused persons, except the third accused.

    Oyedepo: How do you know the second accused?

    Witness: He is a former minister and an account officer in my branch, Gloria Chibuikem, opened a personal account for the second accused.

    The witness, being directed by the EFCC prosecutor, proceeded to identify instruction letters  sent by the accused to the bank for funds transfer to some other accounts.

    Gana further matched the debit instruction letters received from the second accused with entries made in Exhibit 7 (second accused’s statement of account).

    The witness identified a N250 million debit instruction from Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd. to credit another account.

    Oyedepo: Whose account was credited with that N250 million from Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd. account?

    Witness: Second accused.

    In his cross-examination, Counsel to the first accused, Mr Ferdinand Orbih (SAN) asked the witness: Have you ever had cause to complain, that any document submitted to EFCC by your bank, was doctored?

    The witness replied: An issue arose like that.

    Orbih: That doctored document is it part of the documents you analyzed before this court today?

    Witness: Yes it is.

    Orbih: Who doctored those documents?

    Witness: People photocopying the documents, Mr Peter Alemo and Mr Alozie Alaka.

    Orbih: Were they the same staff, that photocopied all the documents sent to the EFCC?

    Witness: Yes, they were.

    Orbih: Who discovered the doctored documents?

    Witness: EFCC did.

    Orbih: Do you know if any other document was doctored?

    Witness: No, I don’t know.

    Orbih: Did you personally carry out any of the transactions?

    Witness: No, I didn’t.

    Orbih, further asked if the witness could confirm that the cheques, previously tendered into evidence, were not doctored; she replied that she could not confirm.

    Orbih: Can you authoritatively say it was the second accused that cashed the cheques?

    Witness: I cannot authoritatively say that the account officer told me.

    Orbih took the witness through the statement of account of one MFA Research Project, Abuja, in Zenith Bank to identify the outflow of N800 million to the fourth accused.

    The witness confirmed that it was also reflected on the forth accused’s statement of account (Exhibit 8).

    Justice Aikawa has adjourned until March 2 for continuation of trial.

    NAN

  • I have heart related ailment, not disease – Fani-Kayode

    I have heart related ailment, not disease – Fani-Kayode

    A former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has dismissed media reports linking him with heart disease, saying he only has a heart-related ailment.

    The said report emanated from court proceedings where Fani-Kayode’s lawyer, Mr. Norrison Quarkers, SAN, told the court that the former Minister had a heart related ailment.

    A statement on Wednesday by Obiageli Nwachukwu, a the Public Affairs Assistant to the former Minister, said there’s a world of difference between the two medical conditions, adding that Fani-Kayode will be presenting a medical report to the court at a latter date.

    Insisting that the said report was false, Fani-Kayode said the story had brought a lot of fear and consternation into the hearts and minds of his friends, supporters and family members all over the world.

    The statement also refuted reports that Fani-Kayode had asked the court and got two previous adjournments in his ongoing trial.

    “The court records are there for all to see. Today was the first and only time that Chief Fani-Kayode has ever been absent from the proceedings at the Federal High Court in Lagos or asked for an adjournment from this particular learned judge.

    “He looks forward to being in court at the adjourned date and he fully appreciates the fact that the EFCC did not oppose the application for adjournment and that the learned trial judge granted it expeditiously. We feel it is important to make these clarifications for record purposes”, the statement added.

  • Fani-Kayode to court: I have a heart ailment

    Fani-Kayode to court: I have a heart ailment

     

    The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday heard that former former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has a heart-related ailment.

    His lawyer Mr Norrison Quakers (SAN) told Justice Rilwan Aikawa that the former minister complained about “heart-related pain” and could not make it to court for his trial.

    His absence stalled his trial for alleged money laundering.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) re-arraigned Fani-Kayode and former finance minister (state) Senator Nenadi Usman for alleged N4.6billion laundering and fraud.

    They were arraigned along with a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Governments in Nigeria ( ALGON ) Yusuf Danjuma, and a company, Jointrust Dimensions Ltd.

    When the case was called, only Usman and Danjuma stepped into the dock.

    Before lawyers announced their appearances, Justice Rilwan asked why Fani-Kayode was not present.

    Quakers spoke up, saying: “I was going to inform My Lord that the second defendant is indisposed. I got a call from his wife who said he was complaining of heart-related pain.”

    Quakers said he expected to get a medical report on his client’s health condition before the close of work.

    According to him, the issue of health could not be taken lightly considering several cases of sudden deaths, including that of a lawyer who collapsed and died in a courtroom while addressing a judge.

    After formerly appearance, Quakers asked that the dates reserved for trial (yesterday and today) be vacated. 

    He said: “The second defendant is unavoidably absent as a result of health challenge, which information was related to me by the wife. I’ve requested for a medical report.

    “If I get the report, I’ll furnish the court with it. I apply that tomorrow’s (today’s) date be vacated so that we can have another date for continuation of trial.”

    EFCC’s lawyer Rotimi Oyedepo did not oppose the application.

    The defendants were accused of indirectly retaining N1.billion, N300million, N400million and N800million, all proceeds of corruption, according to EFCC.

    The prosecution said they allegedly committed the offence between January 8 and March 25, 2015 ahead of the general election.

    Fani-Kayode was also accused of doing cash transaction of N24million with Olubode Oke without going through a financial institution.

    The offence, EFCC said, violates sections 1(a) and 16(d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012 and punishable under Section 16(2)(b).

    The defendants pleaded not guilty.

    Justice Aikawa adjourned till February 28, March 1 and 2 for continuation of trial.