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<\/p>\nAccording to NAN, Mohammed who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was scheduled to be arraigned on a fresh six counts, bordering on false declaration of assets and giving false information to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n
However, at the court, Mohammed and his counsel and the EFCC counsel were present but the court did not sit because the judge was on election petition duty in Abeokuta, Ogun State.<\/p>\n
Counsel for the EFCC, Mr Wahab Shittu, while speaking with newsmen, said: \u201dthe EFCC is an anti-corruption agency, it does not play politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt exists to serve the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the arraignment, he said, \u201cIt is a matter that was ongoing before another judge who has now been elevated to the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n
The expectation he said was that the matter would soon be reassigned to another judge.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a week ago, the registry of this court sent us a notice that today has been fixed for the re-arraignment of the defendant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not at the instance of the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know when a case is transferred to another court, it starts de novo (afresh).\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that no one should see what was happening as an attempt by the EFCC to intimidate anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us focus on the matter before the court. EFCC exists to serve everybody,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The absence of Justice Yusuf Haliru of an FCT High Court on Monday stalled the arraignment of the governor-elect of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed. According to NAN, Mohammed who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was scheduled to be arraigned on a fresh six counts, bordering on false declaration of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3,4],"tags":[30,5545,292,10141,10429],"class_list":["post-111967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","category-politics","tag-arewa","tag-bala-muhammad","tag-bauchi","tag-bauchi-governor","tag-trial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}