Idris is facing a 14-count charge the anti-graft agency entered against him and three others before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.
Justice Halilu Yusuf had ordered a trial-within-trial in the matter to enable the court determine whether all the extra-judicial statements the embattled former AGF made, while he was interviewed by the EFCC, should be admitted in evidence.
Whereas the prosecution maintained that the defendant made confessional statements that nailed him to the charge, however, the former AGF insisted that he made the said statements under duress.
According to his lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche, the EFCC had assured the defendant that he would not be subjected to any trial, should he give details that would implicate a former Minister of Finance and some Governors.
The defendant urged the court to reject the said confessional statements, as his lawyers were not present when he made them and the sessions were not recorded.
Justice Yusuf subsequently adjourned the matter till March 20 for continuation of hearing on the trial-within-trial.
