A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday struck out the bail application filed by embattled former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello.
Justice Maryann Anenih struck out the application on the grounds that it was filed when the former governor was yet to be taken into custody by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The application was filed on November 22, while the anti-graft agency took the former governor into custody on November 26 and arraigned him on November 27.
However, the court admitted the 2nd defendant in the matter, Umar Oricha, to bail in the sum of N300million with two sureties in the like sum.
Bello, who piloted the affairs of Kogi state from 2016 to 2024, is facing trial over his alleged complicity in a N110billion fraud.
He is answering to a 16-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him and two officials of the Kogi state government- Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu- who were cited as 2nd and 3rd defendants in the matter
All the defendants had on November 27, pleaded not guilty to the charge, even as trial Justice Aninih remanded them in custody of the EFCC, pending the determination of their bail applications.
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