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June 9, 2019
A spokesman for theEconomic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC said he was not aware theanti-graft agency has withdrawn its case against Danjuma Goje.
The former governor ofGombe State was until Thursday, a contender for the post of the president ofthe Nigerian Senate.
He withdrew from therace after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and immediately endorsed hisrival Ahmed Lawan.
Goje is facing a21-count charge of misappropriation of 25 billion naira when he was thegovernor of Gombe state.
Less than 24 hoursafter his meeting with Buhari, EFCC lawyers told the court on Friday that theCommission was transferring Goje’s case to the office of the attorney-generalof the Federation.
When theeight-year-old case came up for an emergency hearing before Justice BabatundeQuadiri of Jos Federal High Court II on Friday, instead of the originalschedule of June 20, the lead counsel for EFCC in the case Wahab Shittu saidthe Commission was no longer prosecuting the case.