The Court of Appeal sitting in
Abuja, yesterday, set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja
delivered on February 22nd, 2016 by Justice E. S. Chukwu which dismissed a
‘no-case-submission’ filed by Sani Abdullahi Lulu, a former President of the
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in the corruption charge brought against him
and three others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Justice Ahmad Belgore, while
delivering the landmark judgment, said: “This appeal has merit and the judgment
of the Federal High Court, delivered on February 22, 2016 is hereby set aside
and the appellant, Sani Abdullahi Lulu, discharged acquitted.”
Justice Belgore said the case was
dismissed on the ground that the defendants were bound by the Public Procurement
Act, PPA, and as such should defend themselves in the charges leveled against
them by the EFCC.
Lulu and three others, Amanze
Uchegbulam, a former first vice president of NFF; Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi, a
former executive committee member and NFF former secretary-general, Dr. Bolaji
Ojo-Oba were arraigned on September 6, 2010, for alleged misappropriation of
funds without giving proper accounts of how the money was spent during the
South Africa 2010 World Cup.
Lulu and his co-accused among
other things were also accused of flouting due process in the purchase of two
Marcopolo buses for the national teams.
While, the appeals of Amanze
Uchegbulam and Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu’s co accused are still pending
at the Court Appeal, the fourth accused person, Bolaji Ojo-Oba, erstwhile
general secretary of NFF, had earlier been discharged acquitted by the Court of
Appeal.
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