A spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC said he was not aware the anti-graft agency has withdrawn its case against Danjuma Goje.
The former governor of Gombe State was until Thursday, a contender for the post of the president of the Nigerian Senate.
He withdrew from the race after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and immediately endorsed his rival Ahmed Lawan.
Goje is facing a 21-count charge of misappropriation of 25 billion naira when he was the governor of Gombe state.
Less than 24 hours after his meeting with Buhari, EFCC lawyers told the court on Friday that the Commission was transferring Goje’s case to the office of the attorney-general of the Federation.
When the eight-year-old case came up for an emergency hearing before Justice Babatunde Quadiri of Jos Federal High Court II on Friday, instead of the original schedule of June 20, the lead counsel for EFCC in the case Wahab Shittu said the Commission was no longer prosecuting the case.
