Breaking: OAU Ex-VC Anthony Elujoba Granted Bail

The former Acting Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Anthony Elujoba and the bursar of the university, Mrs. Aderonke Akeredolu, who are standing trial for alleged stealing have been granted bail by an Osun State High Court.

Justice David Oladimeji granted bail to the two accused persons in the ruling he delivered on Friday. Elujoba was granted bail on self-recognition while the bursar was granted bail in the sum of N50 million and two sureties.

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There is wild jubilation at the court premises immediately the judge granted the bail and workers and students started chanting Elujoba.

Elujoba and Akeredolu are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on seven counts of stealing  among other charges.

The judge shifted his sitting from the High Court in Ede to Osogbo and security was tightened at the High Court premises in Osogbo on Friday.

Hundreds of staff and students of the university staged a protest at the court, demanding a reversal of the ruling where the judge earlier order that Elujoba and the bursar should be remanded at Ilesa Prison.

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The agitators barricaded everywhere and blocked all roads to court and into Ede town. The police came in different contingent but couldn’t change anything. Everywhere was blocked and even the judge himself was holed up in his office. EFCC vehicles were tampered with and all tires of their vehicles and several other vehicles deflated.

After about 30 minutes of demonstration, the judge called the prosecuting and defence counsel into his chambers, where he adjusted his ruling.