Two other defendants, Garba Umar and Ubong Effiok, were also granted bail in the sum of N50 million each and two sureties in like sum
Browsing: Justice Taiwo Taiwo
The applicant, Musa Baba-panya, who was also the counsel in the case, had on Thursday approached the court with an exparte motion asking it to stop the President from going ahead on the inauguration
The detention order of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters was based on the request of the Department of State Services to further detain the convener of #RevolutionNow
The court gave the ruling on Thursday based on the argument of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that the accounts were being used to keep proceeds of crime
The EFCC sought the injunction of the court following the unfreezing of the account by the Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State
The EFCC had on June 21, 2016 placed restrictions on two accounts of Fayose with Zenith Bank in connection with funds traced to a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dansuki
The faction sacked by Justice Taiwo Taiwo is loyal to Governor Fayose and has vowed to contest the ruling
The accounts were frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in June this year
Fayose, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, approached the court for an order ordering the EFCC, the first respondent, and Zenith Bank, the second respondent, to immediately lift the freeze order on the accounts