The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted permission to former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to travel abroad for further medical treatment.

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted the permission following an application by Fayose’s counsel, Ola Olanipekun (SAN), requesting the court to allow Fayose “to travel outside Nigeria for further medical examination, diagnosis, treatment and therapeutics, as the exigency of his health demands, on dates which shall not coincide with or obstruct any date of the trial in this case.”

He also asked that his international passport, which was deposited with the Registrar of the Court as part of the conditions for the bail granted should be released to him and returned to the court upon return from the trip.

The council said that Fayose had consistently complied with all the terms and conditions upon which bail was granted including depositing his International Passport with the Registrar of the Court. The application was not opposed by the EFCC.

However, the Court had insisted that Fayose must appear in Court on March 18 and 19, 2021, the next adjourned date.

Fayose is standing trial for alleged engagement in N2.2 billion fraud. After stunning Nigerians by surrendering himself to the EFCC on October 16, 2018, Fayose was first arraigned on October 22, 2018, on 11 counts before Justice Mojisola Olatotegun.

He was arraigned alongside his company, Spotless Investment Ltd. The former governor was re-arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke on July 2, 2019, after the case was withdrawn from Olatoregun, following EFCC’s petition.

 He also pleaded not guilty before Aneke and was allowed to continue on the bail earlier granted, while the case was adjourned for trial.