Ifekudu, said to be the Managing Director of Diamond Leeds Ltd, was said to have been made to part with the said sums through a coordinated advance fee fraud. Besides, the EFCC in another count alleged that the defendants fraudulently obtained from the contractor the sums of $480, 000 and $200,000 between January to December 2022. Responding, the defendants’ lawyer, Chukwuka Obidike, attempted to argue the bail application of his clients but was resisted by the prosecution. In opposing the move, Adeola told the court that he was served with the bail application in the evening of January 26 and that he only saw it in the courtroom on January 27. He insisted that the bail application was not ripe for hearing because he needed to file a counter-affidavit to legally object to the request.