Nigeria, March 8 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday decried the difficulty it encountered while trying to serve a court filing on the defence team of former Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano, who is being prosecuted on N4 billion fraud charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

A statement by the commission's spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said the prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), reported the issue to the court at Thursday's hearing.

It said Mr Tahir told the court how his team made futile efforts to serve the former governor's defence team with a counter-affidavit.

Mr Tahir said the commission's officers, on Wednesday, fruitlessly knocked on the gate of the cham...