Ebun Francis || Chief Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation and spokesman of former president Goodluck Jonathan campaign was Monday rearranged before Justice Rilwan Aikawa after he objected to being tried before Justice Muslim Hassan of the same court before whom he was earlier arraigned on June 28, 2016.
Mrs. Nenadi Usman, the former minister of state was listed as a defendant in the charge as well as one Danjuma Yusuf, and a company, Joint Trust Dimensions Limited.
The 17 counts pressed against them border on conspiracy, unlawful retention of proceeds of theft and money laundering.
In one of the counts, the defendants were accused of conspiring among themselves to “indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.”
All the four were accused of indirectly retaining N300m, N400m and N800m, all proceeds of corruption between January 8 and march 25, 2015, according to EFCC.y earlier pleaded not guilty before Justice Hassan, the defendants equally pleaded not guilty on Monday.
All the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Judge subsequently adjourned till June 6 and 9 for the commencement of trial.