A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), has said the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, may be the puppet of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Adoke, in his book titled Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s Former Attorney-General, stated that he might have drawn the anger of Osinbajo after alleging that the Vice-President benefited from a $16m legal fee that saw the Federal Government recover $65m from indicted companies many years ago.
He said although he had not confirmed Osinbajo’s feelings on the matter, the EFCC chairman was probably being used by the Vice-President “to get his pound of flesh.”
The former minister cited a 2016 interview with THISDAY, where he had said, following a Halliburton case, the Federal Government under former President Goodluck Jonathan retained the services of Nigerian lawyers to prosecute foreign companies that allegedly bribed Nigerian officials in respect of a Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas project. Read more
