{"id":57052,"date":"2024-11-26T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57052"},"modified":"2024-11-26T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:42:45","slug":"57052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/26\/57052\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahaya Bello Finally Appears Before EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yahaya Bello, the former Governor of Kogi State, appeared at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office on Tuesday, marking another step in the agency&#8217;s ongoing investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Bello, accompanied by his legal team, arrived in a black Hilux vehicle, drawing attention as he personally drove to the EFCC headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>This appearance follows the recent Supreme Court ruling affirming the legality of EFCC operations, effectively clearing obstacles for the commission to continue its probe.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, speculation arose about his scheduled visit to the EFCC, but his media team remained silent on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In a related case, the EFCC had, on November 14, requested an adjournment during a hearing at the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The commission cited the need for a 30-day period to address a summons issued earlier against Bello.<\/p>\n<p>During the same proceedings, the EFCC granted administrative bail to Bello\u2019s co-defendants, Umar Oricha and Abdulsalami Hudu, while requesting additional time to secure Bello\u2019s court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been adjourned to November 27 for his arraignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Yahaya Bello, the former Governor of Kogi State, appeared at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office on Tuesday, marking another step in the agency&#8217;s ongoing investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement during his tenure. Bello, accompanied by his legal team, arrived in a black Hilux vehicle, drawing attention as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57055,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052\/revisions\/57055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}