$2b MALABU SCAM: Atiku Urges Adoke To Focus On Substantial Issues

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

FORMER Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has urged the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke who is in the list of mandated invitees to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in respect of the $2b Malabu scam to face his travails squarely rather than diverting attentions.

This development came as the embattled former AGF wrote a detailed letter to the Vice President over the invitations by the anti-graft agency intimating of his inability to respond the invitations following his alleged post-graduate advanced master’s programme he was engaged it with a semester examination ongoing at the University of Leiden. Above all, Adoke in the letter specifically alleged that the former Vice President was responsible for his predicaments at the Commission on account of selfishness stating that Atiku was victimizing him for not enabling him become a shareholder on the $2b Malabu deal.

       

EFCC had issued invitations to Adoke following the ongoing investigations on the scam believably linked to the former Attorney-General of the Federation, and repeatedly stated that there is no going back on the matter noting that from its investigations so far, Adoke has  questions to answer.

  

“I was also informed that these individuals had enlisted a notorious online media to smear my name with allegations of corruption and bribery and that some agents of the Abacha family and one Lawal Abba acting for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President were behind the scheme.  They claim that they were shareholders in Malabu Oil and Gas Limited and had been short-changed by the main shareholder of the company, and that I had refused to use my official position as Attorney General of the Federation to help them get their dues from the main shareholder. It is apparent from these publications that the intention is not necessarily the clarifications sought by the EFCC but a carefully orchestrated plan for my assured unjustified persecution, humiliation and disgrace by a known group with interest in the Malabu matter that are aggrieved over my official role in the resolution of the case,” Adoke alleged.