The immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Maduabuchi Obiano has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to quash the N40 billion corruption charges brought against him by the federal government.The honourable court lacks the requisite jurisdiction to entertain issues on accountability for security vote funds
“There is an appeal filed by the Anambra state government challenging the powers of EFCC to investigate the security vote of Anambra state government.
“The preferment of the entire charge is in bad faith. This honourable court has inherent judicial power to grant all the reliefs sought above”.
At the resumed trial on Thursday, EFCC lawyer, Sylvanus Tahir (SAN) informed the court that he had received the defendant’s motion and had responded accordingly with a counter affidavit.
He however said, that while attempting to serve the defendant’s counsel with his response, he found their gate locked but that he managed to deliver the response in the courtroom.
Responding, Patrick Ekweto (SAN), representing Obiano requested for time to respond to EFCC’s counter affidavit.
Justice Ekwo in a short ruling, granted the defendant two days to file and serve their process on the EFCC and adjourned till March 13 for hearing of the motion.
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
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