The arraignment of Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and his personal aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was again aborted, following the withdraw of the trial judge, Justice James Tsoho, who gave no reason for withdrawing from the matter.
Vanguard, however, gathered that one of the defence counsel had petitioned the Chief Justice of the Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, seeking the disqualification of the judge from further handling the matter.
When the matter came up, yesterday, it had to be stood down by the court, after defence counsel told the court that the accused persons where trapped in traffic, but there and then, the judge hinted that he might not continue with the matter.
In the 20-count charge against the accused persons by the EFCC, Adeyemi and Atoyebi were alleged to have conspired to receive and did receive N501million in several tranches between April 2010 and July 2011 from the Lagos State House of Assembly without going through a financial institution.
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