Dressed in light green native attire and a cap, Emefiele was led into the courtroom by some official of the EFCC on Wednesday afternoon, in compliance with an order made on November 2.
By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – A High Court in Maitama, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has granted embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, bail.
Justice Olukayode Adeniyi admitted Emefiele to bail in a ruling delivered on Wednesday and handed him to his lawyers, Matthew Burkaa (SAN), Johnson Usman (SAN), and Magaji Ibrahim (SAN), with an order to produce him in court on November 15 when he is scheduled to be arraigned before another judge of the High Court of the FCT in a charge earlier filed by the EFCC against him and one other.
Dressed in light green native attire and a cap, Emefiele was led into the courtroom by some official of the EFCC on Wednesday afternoon, in compliance with an order made on November 2 by Justice Adeniyi while ruling on an ex-parte application by Emefiele.
He had directed the EFCC to either release him unconditionally or produce him on November 6 for the court to grant him bail.
Justice Adeniyi restated the order on November 6 when the came came up, but the EFCC neither released nor produced him in court.