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The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed appeals filed by the Rivers State Attorney General and the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, effectively paving the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the tenure of former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili.

In a ruling delivered on Monday, March 10, 2025, a five-member of the apex court, led by Justice John Okoro, upheld the leave granted by the Court of Appeal to the EFCC, allowing the anti-graft agency to challenge a long-standing perpetual injunction that had barred it from probing Odili’s istration.

Odili, who governed Rivers State from 1999 to 2007, secured the controversial injunction from the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt in 2007, preventing the EFCC from investigating, arresting, or prosecuting him, as well as scrutinising the state’s finances during his tenure.

The EFCC has fought to overturn the injunction since 2008, but the legal blockade had shielded Odili from its investigations for nearly two decades.

In 2018, the Court of Appeal granted the EFCC’s request to challenge the Federal High Court’s ruling. However, the Rivers State Attorney General and the Speaker of the House of Assembly sought to nullify the appellate court’s decision by filing separate appeals at the Supreme Court.

A statement released on Tuesday by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said that during the proceedings at the Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Okoro questioned the nature of the appeals, describing them as interlocutory and not the kind of cases the apex court hears at this stage.

“The litigants’ lawyer, S. A. Somiari, SAN, argued that the appeal challenged the leave granted by the Court of Appeal for the EFCC to appeal the 2007 injunction. Justice Okoro, however, interjected, stating,

[b]‘This is not the type of appeal we hear here,’ and advised the parties to return to the Court of Appeal to have the substantive appeal heard before approaching the Supreme Court.”

Recognising the court’s position, Somiari applied to withdraw the appeal, while the EFCC’s legal team, led by Abubakar Mahmud, SAN, alongside Sylvanus Tahir, SAN, and B. O. Obialo, did not oppose the withdrawal.

The Supreme Court subsequently dismissed the appeal.

“The appeal is dismissed, having been withdrawn without any objection,” Justice Okoro ruled.

https://punchng.com/scourt-clears-efcc-to-probe-odilis-tenure-as-rivers-governor/

Finally, the net don catch the fish. EFCC Pastor, you do this one, Jagaban, a man with balls. I salute.
No wonder, Odili was missing at the meeting between the President and the leaders of Niger Delta.. okay, e don clear now.



-Kiss the truth!

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Wike on the beats

Flat heads don put this one for wàhálà 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂










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If there was a working law in this country, why will any judge ever stand on the way an agency that wants to carry out its official duties.



Hmm, Nigeria, a drama scene where people acquire political power just for looting and and then walk free after one week of prosecution.

Some looters will be welcome with heroics cheer and you said, "NIGERIA WILL BE BETTER SOON"

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.

e go touch Wike and Amaechi tenure too

Wike is now fighting Odili. He hasn't finished fighting Fubara.

Fubara needs to fix Wike through hard vawulence

Nothing last forever, not even Aboki perfume.

The perpetual injuction is repudiating.

Werin dey do wike sef,,,tinubu should stop all these

Odili cannot spend Rivers money for 8 years and ask the people of Rivers State not to demand for ability.

Anybody against this ruling is anti-democracy and an evil person.

Nonsense!

His wife is no longer at the Supreme Court

Here we Come .

Mata go long o

Wike

No permanent champion, wike self go collect with time

Wike!

Shebi una wan who dey fight him oga ni,
Dem don cook your own food now.

If it's clears, it means Amaechi and Wike won't be exempted. For 8 years of Wike's rule, Rivers people never used their eyes to sight the budget. Rivers people were only being furnished with budget breakdown during budget presentation at the State House of Assembly.

Under Amaechi, as Chief of Staff, billions were found in Wike's for which he was arrested. The only reason he was freed was because of the perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC from probing Odili and the Rivers state government.

So EFCC should do a holistic probe. Cherry picking only Odili will amount to a witch hunt.

Supreme Court of wike and balabu

Hahahahaha, chia wike na bad guy. Odili will never escape this.

The Gas Turbine will consume him. A man who spent billions of naira for Gas Turbine only to invite obasanjo to commission a Giant generator.

It's game over for Odili.

Nobody has looted Rivers State money since 1999 like Peter Odili. When Obasanjo saw the level of fraud in Rivers State, he swore that the man would never smell the presidency.

That's why he picked gentle Jona to deputise Yar'adua instead of Odili who had always shown interest in being president.

Another unfolding drama.

The fct minister is using all the apparatus of the government available to him to fight his political foes

Jagaban is letting this happen because he needs the fct minister in 2027 to perform the magic he performed in rivers state across the niche and in the fct where he lost in 2023

They are all after their interest not about the masses

Let's see how it goes

Wike should prepare himself because he has a lot of question to answer about his own tenures as the governor of river state because he wasted our money found in his party in different part of the country

One day he will fall out of political favor and then the one who got the favor will fight back

SC only asked them to return to the COA. Matter is still on.

Journalist and their wrong news headlines

teekay213:
Werin dey do wike sef,,,tinubu should stop all these

a clear senseless witch hunt.

Tinubu will finally destroy his 2027 chances just because of rivers votes. He should be beware of Wike

Odili might go and beg Wike ooo.

Shebi he was making mouth before..