Wednesday is Mr Bello’s first court appearance after months of intense efforts to avoid trial and shunning court summonses to answer the corruption charges pending against him in two courts.
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He was subsequently accompanied by operatives into the courtroom, where he sat in the first row of seats close to the dock. Support journalism driven by facts, created by Nigerians for Nigerians. Our thorough, researched reporting relies on the support of readers like you.The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, in an exclusive telephone interview with our reporter Tuesday evening, said “He’s currently being grilled by our investigators.”
On 18 September, Mr Bello, in company with his successor Governor Usman Ododo, went to EFCC to make a dramatic, controversial attempt to surrender himself to the anti-graft agency.
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