The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned the fraud case involving former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to June 13.
On Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite insisted that Bello must come to court and answer to the fraud allegations preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the tune of N80 billion.
The court ordered the EFCC to serve the former governor with the money laundering charges against him through his lawyer on April 23.
In a ruling, Justice Nwite stated that the application filed by the antigraft agency, that no application be heard without the defendant being in court, was meritorious.
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While citing section 396 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, the trial judge held that Bello ought to make himself available first before filling any process.
Through his counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed, the former governor informed the court, that the EFCC had by a motion ex parte got an order of the Appeal Court stopping the contempt proceedings filed by him against the agency at the High Court sitting in Lokoja.
