A federal high court in Abuja has
discharged Amaju Pinnick, president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) of
charges bordering on fraud to the tune of $8.4 million and N4 billion.
Sunusi Mohammed, NFF secretary;
Seyi Akinwumi, the 1st vice president; Shehu Dikko, the 2nd vice president and
Yusuff Fresh, an executive member, were also discharged of similar offences by
the court.
The defendants were never
arraigned.
At the court session on Tuesday,
counsel representing the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) applied to
withdraw the charges.
The AGF took over the case from
the office of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of
Public Property (SPIP) which originally instituted the case against the
defendants.
The AGF said he found out that
there was no basis for the charges filed against Pinnick and other executive
members of the NFF.
Making his submission, Mohammed
Katu, counsel to the defendants, said: “we asked that since the prosecution has
applied to withdraw the charges, the defendants should be acquitted.”
Consequently, Ijeoma Ojukwu, the
judge, ruled in favour of the defendants and discharged them.
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