EFCC Withdraws Appeal Against Yahaya Bello.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to withdraw the appeal it filed to set aside the interim injunction that barred it from arresting the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, for trial.

The anti-graft agency, in its notice of discontinuance dated April 22, said its decision to terminate further proceedings on the appeal, was based on the fact that the initial order a Kogi State High Court made in favour of the former governor, has been overtaken by events.

Besides, the Commission admitted that the appeal it brought against the said interim order, was filed outside the time allowed by the law.

It will recalled that the embattled former governor had in a bid to stop his arrest, ran before the Kogi State High Court to enforce his fundamental rights.

The court, in a ruling it delivered on February 9, issued an interim order that restrained the EFCC from inviting, arresting or prosecuting the Applicant over the subject matter of the charge against him, pending the determination of the suit.

Though the EFCC filed an appeal to set aside the interim order, the court, on April 17, delivered its judgement on Bello’s substantive suit.