{"id":428559,"date":"2011-05-23T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/23\/n5-billion-scam-audu-fails-to-appear-in-court-again\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:30:38","slug":"n5-billion-scam-audu-fails-to-appear-in-court-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/n5-billion-scam-audu-fails-to-appear-in-court-again\/","title":{"rendered":"N5 Billion Scam &#8211; Audu Fails to Appear in Court Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.8801250869\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isiaka Wakili, Lokoja<\/p>\n<p>20 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>For the second time in two months, the former governor of Kogi State and gubernatorial candidate of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, failed to appear in court for hearing on the 80-count charge against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the anti-graft agency had in November 2006, arrested Audu in Lokoja for allegedly stealing over N5 billion from the state&#8217;s treasury when he was governor.<\/p>\n<p>At the sitting yesterday, Audu&#8217;s lawyer, Abdullahi Haruna told the state High Court, Lokoja, that his client was not aware that the case had been reassigned to another judge following the redeployment of Justice Henry Adebiyi, who was handling it before.<\/p>\n<p>But the counsel to the EFCC, Adebisi Adeniyi, said the accused was deliberately thwarting the case, arguing that, &#8216;The last time the case came up for hearing, Audu was said to have been critically ill and bedridden in an Abuja hospital, whereas he was busy campaigning for election in the state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Justice Hussein Seidu Tanko, adjourned the case to June 10, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105230728.html\" title=\"N5 Billion Scam - Audu Fails to Appear in Court Again\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N5 Billion Scam &#8211; Audu Fails to Appear in Court Again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Isiaka Wakili, Lokoja 20 May 2011 For the second time in two months, the former governor of Kogi State and gubernatorial candidate of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, failed to appear in court for hearing on the 80-count charge against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). Operatives of the anti-graft agency had in November 2006, arrested Audu in Lokoja for allegedly stealing over N5 billion from the state&#8217;s treasury when he was governor. At the sitting yesterday, Audu&#8217;s lawyer, Abdullahi Haruna told the state High Court, Lokoja, that his client was not aware that the case had been reassigned to another judge following the redeployment of Justice Henry Adebiyi, who was handling it before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N5 Billion Scam - Audu Fails to Appear in Court Again - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/23\/n5-billion-scam-audu-fails-to-appear-in-court-again\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"N5 Billion Scam - Audu Fails to Appear in Court Again - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Isiaka Wakili, Lokoja 20 May 2011 For the second time in two months, the former governor of Kogi State and gubernatorial candidate of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, failed to appear in court for hearing on the 80-count charge against him by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). 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