Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Tuesday, told John Abebe, brother to late former First Lady, Mrs Stella Obasanjo, that
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abebe had made a no-case submission after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s closed its case against him.However, in a ruling on Tuesday, Dada held that evidence by the EFCC established a prima-facie case against Abebe.
NAN reports that, in the no-case submission, which relied on Section 239 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2011, Abebe’s counsel, Mr Uche Nwokedi , had urged the court to dismiss the EFCC’s case against him. The defence counsel also said that no original copy of the allegedly forged document was produced in court, arguing that evidence of prosecution witnesses amounted to hearsay.
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