A Presidency source, who preferred not to be named, revealed this to State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday.
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The group made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its Convener, Pelumi Olajengbesi.
The former senator is standing trial on a two-count charge bordering on bribery and advanced fee fraud preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting the former Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Scholarship Board for the alleged offence.
The Spokesperson of the Commission, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Friday in Abuja said there was no truth in some media reports that the commission had dropped charges against Adoke.
They were arraigned on July 3, 2020 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Office on three-count charges bordering on illegal dealing in petroleum products.
Dele Oyewale, the Head, Media and Publicity of the EFCC, made this known in a statement on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports Oshinowo during the arraignment before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court pleaded not guilty to the eight-count fraud charge.
Osagie Ize-Iyamu and the four others were to appear on Thursday before Justice M.G. Umar over charges bordering on alleged N700 million money laundering filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
A businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, and six other firms were also arraigned alongside by the EFCC in the 48 counts involving about $1 billion and N673 million.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo granted the order in a ruling on a motion ex-parte brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Captain Adegoke Ebo, Executive Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, handed over the barges and some petroleum products to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday.
In two separate judgments, Justice Patricia Ajoku sentenced the duo after they had each pleaded guilty to the one-count amended charge preferred against them.
Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Magu said the commission was putting resources together to go after them and recover the country’s wealth stashed in that country.
The Spokesperson of the Commission, Dele Oyewale, said their arrest was sequel to several intelligence garnered overtime about their suspicious lifestyles.
The Spokesperson of the commission, Dele Oyewale, said that Ojemolon, 47, who claimed to be a builder based in Lagos State, was arrested on Wednesday in Edo State.
The Spokesperson of the commission, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this on Thursday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba held that the EFCC failed to establish ingredients of fraud that could link the lawmaker with the alleged offence.
The defendant was arrested alongside the vessel by the Nigerian Navy and subsequently handed over to to the EFCC for prosecution.
The Council held that the anti-graft agency’s letter, accusing the judge of wrongfully granting an ex parte application, was without merit.