Mr Ikuforiji is charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi.
A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned until 22 June, the money laundering trial of a former Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji.
They are being tried before Justice Mohammed Liman on a 54 counts charge bordering on the alleged offence. On 4 May, defence counsel Dele Adesina had opened the case of the defence and had begun calling witnesses.Among others, Mr Ikuforiji had testified how he was being prosecuted on a faceless petition
Mr Obla had argued that the trial court erred in law when it held that the counts were incompetent because they were filed under Section 1 of the Money Laundering Act, 2004 which was repealed by an Act of 2011. Following the decision of the Appeal Court, the defendants headed for the Supreme Court, seeking to upturn the ruling of the appellate court.
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