News: Fayose Urged Court To End Outrageous Charges

Formal Governor of Ekiti State Ayo Fayose, has urged a Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti to put an end to the charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Fayose made the application, Wednesday, through his counsel, Mr. Owoseni Ajayi, when the matter came up for hearing before Justice Adamu Hobon.

Ajayi noted that it had become imperative to make the application because, “it is legally offensive to criminal procedure.”

He argued further that the criminal code states that a criminal charge brought against anyone must be specific in particulars, claiming that the “matter in this case is not specific and it is nebulous.”

He said he had made an application to the court to end the charges because “it would amount to a waste of the time of the court since the charges are outrageous and would leave the court at large.”


The EFCC which said it had filed a counter-affidavit against the application, however opposed Fayose’s application, claiming that it had established a prima facie case against the accused.

 EFCC’s counsel, Mr. Adebisi Adeyemi,says the application brought by the applicants was “lacking in merit and a ploy to frustrate the case and waste the precious time of the court.”

He therefore asked the court to dismiss the application, saying “we have established that there is a prima facie case and we have sufficient evidence to prove our case.”

Justice Hobon adjourned ruling till November 7 2013

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