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The Federal Government on Wednesday arraigned six persons including a retired army general over an alleged failed coup against President Bola Tinubu.
They include Mohammed Ibrahim Gana, a retired major-general, and Erasmus Ochegobia Victor, a retired navy captain.
Others are Ahmed Ibrahim, a police inspector; Zekeri Umoru, an electrician at the Presidential Villa, Bukar Kashim Goni, and Abdulkadir Sani, who is a Zaria, Kaduna State-based Islamic cleric.
The six men pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges preferred against them before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
After the defendants entered their not-guilty plea during the proceedings, Wednesday, the judge, Joyce Abdulmalik, ordered an accelerated hearing of the trial.
The judge also fixed 27 April for the hearing of the bail application.
Five of the defendants were produced in court by the agents of the State Security Service (SSS) . They are to remain in the security agency’s custody pending the hearing and determination of their bail applications.
The order defendant Mr Sani, who a court had ordered to be released unconditionally, came to court on his own.
