EFCC charge: Court fixes April 23 to rule on substituted service on Yahaya Bello

Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel for the EFCC, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, and the ex-governor's lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohammed, SAN, presented their arguments for and against the oral application. When the matter was called for Bello's arraignment on a 19-count money laundering charge preferred against him, the former governor was not in court. However, his team of lawyers, including Adeola Adedipe, SAN, was in court.

He stressed that the arrest warrant was an attempt to bring the court on collision course with the Appeal Court. Bello's lawyer, who insisted that the issue of jurisdiction was a threshold which the court must address first, argued that the charge ought not to have been filed in view of the appeal.

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