Malabo deal fallout: Presidency, EFCC plotting to abduct me — Adoke

Former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Mohammed Adoke, yesterday, raised the alarm that the Presidency, acting in concert with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was plotting to abduct him to answer charges relating to the controversial Malabu Oil scam.

But the Presidency in a swift reaction by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, dismissed the allegation. According to Adesina, “this is a democratic government. The anti-corruption war will always be fought within the ambit of the law.”

Adoke, who was the AGF under President Goodluck Jonathan, has insisted that he faithfully implemented the Presidential directive on the settlement of the feud involving all the parties in the oil block controversy and did not do so for pecuniary reasons and should not, therefore, be held accountable for alleged fraud.

However, the present administration, acting on information provided by the French government on claims that its oil firm, which played a key role in the Malabu Oil deal, bribed top Nigerian officials to get its way, has accused Adoke of masterminding the scheme, which made Nigeria to lose huge sums of money to individuals and entities.

In a statement he personally signed and made available to Vanguard, Adoke accused the Federal Government and the EFCC of acting in bad faith by plotting to arrest and detain him all in a bid to humiliate and cow him.
Vanguard, August 21, 2017

 

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