\u25aa\ufe0e Governor Bello’s wife not a defendant in the matter*<\/p>\n
By Yemi Oyeyemi<\/strong>, Abuja.<\/p>\n The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed February 14 for hearing on the bail application filed by Ali Bello and 3 others on an alleged N3 billion fraud charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.<\/p>\n On 8th February, 2023, Justice Obiora Egwuatu adjourned for hearing on the bail application filed by the defendants after they had pleaded not guilty to the 18-count charge.<\/p>\n At the resumed sitting, Counsel to the defendants, Ahmed Raji (SAN), had told the court that the EFCC had filed a counter affidavit to the bail application.<\/p>\n The EFCC’s counter affidavit, filed on Friday, was not in the Court’s file and not at the Registry of the Court.<\/p>\n The EFCC however claimed that it was mistakenly taken to another Court, specifically Court 7.<\/p>\n Justice Egwuatu noted that there were no copies of the counter affidavit in his record.<\/p>\n In the light of the mix up, the Court adjourned the matter to tomorrow, 14th February, 2022 for hearing of the bail application.<\/p>\n Governor Yahaya Bello’s wife, Mrs. Rasheedat Bello, was not a defendant in the matter as against the EFCC press release of last Sunday.<\/p>\n However, contrary to insinuations that the Monday’s sitting was for ruling on the EFCC case against Ali Bello and 3 others, it was for hearing on the bail application filed by the defendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u25aa\ufe0e Governor Bello’s wife not a defendant in the matter* By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja. The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed February 14 for hearing on the bail application filed by Ali Bello and 3 others on an alleged N3 billion fraud charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3653,759,164],"class_list":["post-62371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-application","tag-bello","tag-efcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}