“So, it was at that point, when the president was still agitated that a fine young man, the special assistant to the president on domestic matters, Dudafa shouted from the back and said ‘Daddy, we are leaving here on the 29th of May’.Adoke also spoke of how Patience Jonathan, wife of the former president, abused him when her husband’s defeat [...]
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Mohammed Adoke, former attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, says he is ready to come back to Nigeria.In an interview with Premium Times, Adoke said he would to return to Nigeria "between July and September".Adoke dismissed insinuations that he left the country to avoid prosecution, saying his stay abroad has little to do with the Malabu case.The [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former minister of justice and attorney general of the federation, has asked a federal high court in Abuja, to dismiss a bench warrant issued for his arrest.The court had ordered Adoke’s arrest alongside Dan Etete, former minister of petroleum, and four foreigners, Raph Wetzels, Casula Roberto, Pujato Stefano, and Burrato Sebastiano.This followed failure of the six individuals to [...]
The Citizens' Advocacy for Social & Economic Rights (CASER) has condemned the warrant arrest issued against Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation.A federal capital territory (FCT) high court had issued a warrant of arrest against Adoke over the controversial OPL 245 deal executed by the federal government in 2011.The court granted the order based on a suit filed by the [...]
Femi Oboro, counsel to Mohammed Adoke, says his client cannot be held responsible for carrying out presidential directives while he was a minister.Adoke was the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.On Wednesday, a federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Abuja listed him among those to be arrested over the controversial [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, has denied rumours that he sent a congratulatory message to Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west.Melaye, who ran under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), won his reelection bid, beating his closest rival Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).He polled 85,395 votes, while Adeyemi had 66, 901 votes.But a [...]
Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has advised Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), that nothing in the court charges links the accused to the alleged offence in the OPL 245 saga.Mohammed Adoke, former minister of justice and attorney general, and Dan Etete, a former minister of petroleum resources, are among those accused by [...]
Snippets of what transpired after the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015 presidential election are now coming to the open, with his wife accused of calling Mohammed Bello Adoke, then-attorney-general of the federation, a "useless man" for not helping to disqualify candidate Muhammadu Buhari.In his upcoming book, 'On a Platter of Gold: How Jonathan Won and [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, says he is aware of the threats on his life and the alleged plan of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to "illegally abduct and forcibly drag me to Nigeria."Adoke in a statement on Sunday said the anti-graft agency was working on the order of the presidency to [...]
Mohammed Adoke, a former attorney-general of the federation, has filed a human rights complaint against the federal government at the United Nations Human Rights Committee.He also named the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the complaint, accusing the agency "of unmitigated acts of persecution, intimidation, harassment, threat of deprivation right to life, unlawful interference with right to family life [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, says all those behind his travails will be exposed.In a statement released hours after policemen searched his residence in Okene, Kogi state, on Friday, Adoke said this would be the fourth time that security operatives would search his house.He commended the officers that carried out the operation for being professional, saying those sent [...]
The federal government has initiated a plan to have Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, extradited to the country to face fraud charges.Johnson Ojogbane, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is prosecuting Adoke, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday.The EFCC had sued Adoke and two multinational companies for their alleged role [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, has asked a federal high court to declare that he acted on former President Goodluck Jonathan's instruction in the $1.1bn Malabu oil deal.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed charges of corruption against Adoke, Dan Etete, former petroleum minister; Aliyu Abubakar, a businessman, and Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd at a [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, says many homes will be invaded by hoodlums pretending to be security operatives if the whistleblowing policy of the federal government is not properly monitored.Last month, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) fruitlessly raided Adoke's Kano home in search of documents believed to incriminating.On Saturday, unidentified gunmen invaded the home [...]
Unidentified gunmen invaded the home of Bashir Adoke, a younger brother of former attorney-general of the federation, Mohammed Adoke, in the wee hours of Saturday.The house is located at Nagazi, Okehi local government area of Kogi state.TheCable learned that the gunmen, clad in black, arrived in a Hilux van.Despite not having a search warrant, the gunmen reportedly said they were looking [...]
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation, says he did not broker the controversial OPL 245 deal between the federal government and Malabu Oil and Gas in 2011.In a statement by Victor Akhidenor, his media officer, Adoke also denied receiving bribe from anyone in respect to the transaction.Adoke had earlier claimed that he did no wrong concerning the deal and [...]
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