Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged N6.9bn Fraud: Judge’s Absence Stalls Fayose’s No-Case Submission

The scheduled ruling on the No-case submission filed by a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos was stalled on Thursday, July 10, 2025, due to the absence of the Judge. The EFCC had, on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, re-arraigned Fayose and Spotless Investment Limited on an 11-count charge bordering on money laundering and stealing to the tune of N6.9bn ( Six Billion Nine Hundred Million Naira).The defendants had first been arraigned on October 22, 2018 before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun. At the last adjourned…