The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, protected nine judgments against a previous Adamawa State Governor, Vice Admiral Muritala Nyako rtd, his son, Senator Abdulaziz Nyako and 7 of his business partners in simply one day.

The anti-graft firm on Tuesday night in Abuja, secured the nine judgments against the former governor in the N29bn fraud charges brought against them given that 2015.

Court of Appeal, Abuja Division delivered all the 9 judgments in separate 9 appeals submitted by the 9 offenders to seek nullifications of the N29bn money laundering charges against them.

The appeals are: CA/A/CR/ 589/2021 (by Nyako), CA/A/CR/ 590/2021 (by Zulfizil Abba), CA/A/CR/ 591/2021 (by Crust Energy), CA/A/CR/ 595/2021 (by Sebore Farms), CA/A/CR/ 596/2021 (by Blue Opal Ltd), CA/A/CR/ 597/2021 (by Abdulaziz), CA/A/CR/ 594/2021 (by Pagado Fortunes), CA/A/CR/ 593/2021 (by Abubakar Aliyu) and CA/A/CR/ 592/2021 (by Tower Asset Mgt).

In the 9 separate judgments on Tuesday evening, a three-member panel of the court, led by Justice Peter Ige, dismissed the appeals by Nyako and eight others.

Nyako and the others had appealed against the July 19, 2021 judgment by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja which declined their no-case submissions.

The others are Nyako’s boy, Abdulaziz,; Zulfizil Abba, Abubakar Aliyu, Sebore Farms and Extension Limited, Pagado Fortunes Limited, Blue Opal Limited, Tower Assets Management Limited and Crust Energy Limited.

In the judgments on Tuesday, the Court of Appeal held among others that Justice Abang was right in rejecting the no-case submissions by Nyako and others.

The appellate court found that the prosecution, led by Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) sufficiently established a prima facie case against the 9 appellants to need their being called upon to enter their defence.

The court continued to affirm Justice Abang’s ruling and dismissed the appeals by Nyako and 8 others.

It bought them to return to the Federal High Court and enter their defence to the 37-count charge pending against them by supplying responses to concerns raised in the proof presented by the federal government