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<\/p>\nBabalele, who is the son-in-law to Atiku Abubakar, 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged money laundering.<\/p>\n
The Atiku\u2019s son-inlaw, who was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos State was, however, granted a N20m bail yesterday.<\/p>\n
However, Yabagi said the prosecution of Babalele would create an impression that the Presidency was intimidating the opposition.<\/p>\n
Yabagi anchored his claim on the fact that Atiku was challenging the victory of President Buhari at the 2019 elections before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.<\/p>\n
Featuring on Channels Television, Yabagi said: \u201cI understand that Atiku\u2019s lawyer and brother-in-law have been put behind bars by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not in tandem with what the political situation in the country is. It has a negative impact because we have not forgotten that Atiku is in court and people will think this is another way of intimidating the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think no matter what the case may be, in terms of what Atiku\u2019s lawyer and the in-law must have done, I will expect that some decorum is exhibited because this is somebody that is in court with you. People will think you are trying to intimidate the opposition.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 2019 Action Democratic Party, ADP, presidential candidate, Sani Yabagi has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the prosecutor of Abdullahi Babalele. Babalele, who is the son-in-law to Atiku Abubakar, 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged money laundering. The Atiku\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144059,"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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144058","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=144058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}