A former Oyo State Governor, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, has been acquitted over alleged N4.7 billion fraud.
Justice Mohammed Idris on Friday acquitted former governor, faulting the prosecution’s case.
Justice Idris said the prosecution’s case was full of contradictions.
He said the case was badly prosecuted.
The judge said EFCC’s case lacked credible evidence and that the prosecution’s case was full of contradictions.
Justice Idris held that the prosecution failed to prove a single ingredient in the 11-count charge.
“The court found the defendants not guilty,” the judge held in 11 counts.
He started reading the judgment at about 10 am at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
He began by announcing that the judgment was up to 250 pages, but that he would skip some aspects.
“I examined 914 tendered documents forensically,” he said.
“If I have to read the entire judgment, we’ll leave here by 6 pm. So I’ll skip some.”
The 11-year-old case was filed in 2008.
Justice Idris is the third judge to handle the case after Justices I. M. Sanni and A. R. Mohammed.
