{"id":482,"date":"2017-03-13T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/2017\/03\/adoke-insists-obasanjo-yaradua-jonathan-endorsed-malabu-agreement.html\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:06:00","slug":"adoke-insists-obasanjo-yaradua-jonathan-endorsed-malabu-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/adoke-insists-obasanjo-yaradua-jonathan-endorsed-malabu-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoke Insists Obasanjo, Yar\u2019Adua, Jonathan Endorsed Malabu Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe
\n former
\nMinister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed
\nBello
\nAdoke (SAN) has insisted that the controversial Malabu oil Block
\nAgreement was endorsed by the previous administrations of Presidents
\nOlusegun Obasanjo, Umaru
\nMusa Yar\u2019Adua and Goodluck Jonathan.<\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\nIn
\n an
\nofficial letter written to his successor and the current Justice
\nMinister, Abubakar
\nMalami (SAN), Adoke, said  \u201cI believe it is your responsibility to
\nexplain to the public who are being sold a fiction that the transaction
\nstarted from President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR under whose
\nadministration the Terms of Settlement were brokered with Chief Bayo
\nOjo, SAN, as the then Attorney General who executed the Terms of
\nSettlement before the tenure of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
\nwho approved the final implementation of the Terms of Settlement and my
\nhumble self who executed the resolution agreements. This is more so as
\nthe Settlement and its implementation were situated in the Federal
\nMinistry of Justice.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cHonourable
\n Attorney General of the Federation, your response is crucial because it
\n has become glaring that the actions of the Economic and Financial
\nCrimes Commission (EFCC) in respect of the transaction are not in the
\nnational interest; but rather in furtherance of a plot to serve the
\ninterests of some powerful families and individuals who are aggrieved by
\n my refusal to accede to their requests to compel Malabu to pay them
\ncertain sums from the proceeds of its divestment in OPL 245, and the
\nsubsequent re-allocation of the Block to Shell\/ENI. You will recall that
\n I had on several occasions asserted this fact. I am therefore surprised
\n that a national institution is being used to further the interest of
\nindividuals whose claim or shareholding in Malabu remains shady and
\nprefer to engage proxies to fight their battles.”<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nOn the recent filed charges by anti-corruption agency against him and others, Adoke stated that \u201crecent
\nactions of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to impugn the
\nsettlement which was done in the national interest particularly their penchant
\nto suppress facts relating to
\nthe transaction and the filing of criminal charges against me for conspiracy\/
\naiding the commission of Money Laundering offence and the latest allegations of
\nbribe taking reveal very clearly that either your Office and that of the EFCC
\nare not working in harmony or that something sinister is going on.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cHaving
\ngiven you the benefit of the doubt that you would not sponsor deliberate
\nfalsehood against me, my suspicion is that there is an orchestrated plot by the
\nEFCC to: deliberately impugn a transaction that has been scrutinized and
\napproved by at least three past Presidents and three Attorneys General; drag my
\nname in the mud and paint me with the tar of corruption in order to attract
\npublic odium.\u201d<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAdoke also
\nadvised the Justice Minister that \u201cAs the Chief Law Officer of the Federation,
\nyou have a public duty to speak on this matter so that Nigerians would know
\nwhether I acted mala fide or abused my office in the entire transaction leading
\nto the final implementation of the Settlement. Nigerians need to know whether
\nyour predecessors in office from 2006 to May 2015 acted in the  national interest when they brokered and
\nimplemented the Settlement.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cIt will
\nalso be instructive for Nigerians to know whether your predecessors were
\ncarrying out their personal agenda or that their respective actions were
\ncarried out with the knowledge and approval of their respective Principals.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAdoke said
\n\u201cif you find that I had breached my Oath of Office or abused my office, please
\ndo not hesitate to bring me to justice. However, if it is the contrary, as I
\nstrongly believe, that certain individuals who had vowed to even scores with me
\nare now being aided by state institutions such as the EFCC; I deserve
\nprotection from these unwarranted attacks and dehumanising treatment that I am
\nbeing subjected to merely because I chose to serve my fatherland.\u201d<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

It could be
\nrecalled that the EFCC has filed charges against the ex-minister and some
\nformer officials over the Malabu oil deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) has insisted that the controversial Malabu oil Block Agreement was endorsed by the previous administrations of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. In an official letter written to his successor and the current Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}