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An Abuja High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed October 4, for ruling in an application brought by the embattled former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, praying the court to quash the entire 17-count criminal charge preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC).

Ogbulafor alongside the 3rd accused person in the matter, Mr. Jude Nwokoro, are contending that the proof of evidence tendered against them by the anti-graft agency, failed to establish neither a prima-facie case nor an incriminating nexus linking them to the alleged crime.

At the last sitting, the court had given both Ogbolafor and Nwokoro 21days from July 14to file their written addresses but they failed to meet the deadline as directed by the court until Monday the September20.

It would be recalled that the duo in their separate applications before the trial court are pleading with Justice Ishaq Bello, to go ahead and terminate the criminal proceeding initiated against them by the ICPC, as well as discharge them from the criminal case.

The two applications were however consolidated by the trial court, while all the parties in the matter were ordered to prepare and file joint written addresses in response to the applications that would be adopted on the next adjourned date.

Prince Ogbulafor and Jude Nwokoro are standing trial for allegedly using three fictitious companies to defraud the federal government to the tune of about N2.3billion, in 2001.