Former
President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned a former Attorney-General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to stop mentioning
his name in the controversial $1.1 billion Malabu Oil deal.
Olusegun Obasanjo Obasanjo said he considered
the controversial award of OPL 245 oil field licence as the “height of
corruption,” and could not have participated in negotiations that led to the
deal The rebuttal came over twenty-four hours after Adoke distributed excerpts
of a petition he sent to incumbent Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar
Malami, SAN, alleging victimization and persecution by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the illegal deal.
He
also alleged that Obasanjo gave approval for return of the oil bloc to Malabu
through his then Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Edmund Daukoru. But
dismissing this in an interview with online portal, Premium Times, from Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, Obasanjo said: “I don’t support that kind of
conduct.
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