The senator representing Plateau central in the Senate

The court chose the date on Thursday after taking final arguments from lawyers representing parties.

Dariye is, by his appeal, praying the Supreme Court to upturn the November 16, 20218 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which convicted him and sentenced him to 10 years for diverting public funds estimated at N1.162billion while he was the governor.

A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Stephen Adah, in its decision, upheld an earlier judgement by Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), delivered on June 12, 2018.

 Dariye who was the governor of Plateau state between 1999 and 2007 was in June 2018 sentenced to 14 years in prison by an Abuja High Court for stealing state funds while in office.

He was found guilty of diverting N1.7 billion state ecological funds. However, the Court of Appeal in Abuja reduced the senator's jail term to 10 years
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