An FCT High Court in Maitama has refused an application by the former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to be granted permission to travel to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up.

At the resumed hearing today on the application for medical leave, the trial Judge, Justice Hamza Muazu, held that Emefiele, who is being prosecuted by the EFCC on an amended 20-count charge bordering on procurement fraud, obtaining by pretense, and forgery while he was the CBN Governor, failed to supply sufficient reasons to show that the medical trip was essential and unavoidable.

Justice Muazu also said that Emefiele failed to show the court a copy of the medical appointment or invitation from the United Kingdom he claimed invited him for a medical check-up despite stating he will be away from July 28 to September 10.

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