 An ex-governor, Godwin Emefeli, has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against him. The charges, which were originally six, were expanded to include criminal breach of trust, fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, procurement fraud, and conspiracy to commit a felony. The EFCC alleged that Emefeli used his position to confer corrupt advantages on his wife and brother-in-law by awarding a contract for the external renovation of the CBN's Governor's residence. The trial is scheduled for February 12th and 13th. This is a situation in which the states, particularly the Ministry of Justice, feel that they want to put in more counts in the charge. They are entitled by law to do that. So what they have done is to amend the charge and out more counts and more grounds. So there's really, if you ask us how we feel, for us it's within their powers to do that and they've just done that. There's no big deal about that. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.