{"id":19725,"date":"2024-09-25T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2024-09-25T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T11:59:19","slug":"yahaya-bello-misses-court-arraignment-again-in-n80-billion-misappropriation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19725","title":{"rendered":"Yahaya Bello Misses Court Arraignment Again in N80 Billion Misappropriation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ex-Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has once again failed to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his arraignment over the alleged misappropriation of N80 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The case, brought forward by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), follows Bello&#8217;s refusal to honor the agency&#8217;s summons regarding the allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite previously declaring his willingness to cooperate with the EFCC, Bello was absent from Wednesday&#8217;s court session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court has now adjourned the case to October 30, 2024, due to the governor&#8217;s failure to attend the proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the hearing, Bello&#8217;s counsel explained that his absence was due to a suit filed at the Supreme Court, seeking to nullify the arrest warrant issued against him by the lower court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has once again failed to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his arraignment over the alleged misappropriation of N80 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8995,8992,75,8994,8993,2931],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-case","tag-court-arraignment","tag-efcc","tag-misappropriation","tag-n80-billion","tag-yahaya-bello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19727,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}