{"id":54323,"date":"2018-10-22T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=54323"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T10:02:26","slug":"fayose-arrives-court-ahead-of-n1-3bn-fraud-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=54323","title":{"rendered":"Fayose arrives court ahead of N1. 3bn fraud trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has arrived the Federal High Court Lagos, ahead of his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC had charged the former governor on an 11 count charge bordering on money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-615246\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fayose-arrives-court-ahead-of-N1.-3bn-fraud-trial-PHOTOS.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft agency had further named 22 witnesses to testify against Fayose.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC also listed Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Alex Otti, as well as the Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank among others as key witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose, who had given himself to the EFCC last week was transferred from the commission\u2019s Abuja office to Lagos, in order to be arraigned before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has arrived the Federal High Court Lagos, ahead of his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. EFCC had charged the former governor on an 11 count charge bordering on money laundering. The anti-graft agency had further named 22 witnesses to testify against Fayose. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54324,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[592],"class_list":["post-54323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-ayodele-fayose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54323","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=54323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}