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BREAKING: Judge Steps down from Fani-Kayode’s N4.9bn Fraud Case

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has withdrawn himself from further presiding over the alleged N4.9bn fraud charge pressed against a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The judge ordered the return of the case file to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, for re-assignment to another judge.

Punch reports he directed Fani-Kayode and his co-defendants to go and await further directive from Justice Auta.

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