Former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, will be arraigned Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged money laundering offences involving N338 million.
Mr Ikuforiji will be tried before Justice Muhammed Liman.
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A five-man panel of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Mary Peter-Odilli had unanimously ruled in January 2018 that the case be re-assigned to another judge of the Federal High Court other than Justice Ibrahim Buba who had exonerated Ikuforiji of the charges in 2014.
The apex court had, earlier in December 2017, made similar orders of retrial and re-assignment of the case to another judge in its judgment on the appeal filed by Ikuforiji’s ex-aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, with whom the former speaker was charged, tried and absolved at the Federal High Court.
Justice Buba had in a ruling in September 2014 held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) failed to establish a prima facie case against Ikuforiji and Atoyebi and dismissed the 56 counts against him.
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The EFCC appealed the court’s decision and got a favourable judgement in November 2016.
Ikuforiji and Atoyebi, in turn, filed separate appeals against the Court of Appeal’s decision and went to the Supreme Court in 2016.
