The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr Ibrahim Magu, has released a statement denying Mohammed Adoke’s allegations where the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, alleged in his book ‘Burden of Service’ that he (Magu) was recruited by Vice President Osinbajo and former Senate leader, Alli Ndume to viciously maligned his person.
According to the statement released on Tuesday 17th 2019, by the anti-graft commission Magu said: “I am alarmed by the brazen attempt by former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke to rewrite history and portray himself as victim of persecution regarding the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s investigation of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement in his book Burden of Service”.
The EFCC Boss who labelled Mohammed Adoke a liar, added that: “In the last few days the Nigerian media has been awash with previews of Adoke’s book, titled: “Burden of Service: Reminiscences of Nigeria’s former Attorney General,” in which he took aim at the EFCC boss as being part of a deadly triumvirate that had been hounding and persecuting him since he left office in 2015. The other two alleged traducers, mentioned by Adoke are the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and former senate leader, Alli Ndume. Adoke claims that he had been viciously maligned by this threesome to the extent that he contemplated suicide.
Specifically, he claimed in Chapter 8 of the book, that Magu was recruited by Prof. Osinbajo to hound and persecute him despite, as he claimed, his role in reinstating Magu to the EFCC from the police “where he had been vegetating.”
Stating further, EFCC added that: “Mohammed Adoke attributes his source of information on the alleged Osinbajo instruction to Magu against him to an unnamed governor from the North West, who according to him, claimed Magu told him that he had the instruction of Osinbajo to “deal with Adoke.”
“Adoke equally claims that an unnamed senator also confided in him that Magu nursed a personal grouse against him because he believed that he (Adoke) owned half of the Centenary City in Abuja.
That Adoke neither named the North-West governor nor the Senator that provided the weighty intelligence on which he took Magu to the guillotine in his book, could only mean one thing: the claims are tissues of lies, contrived to entertain and attract underserved attention to himself. The acting Chairman of EFCC Ibrahim Magu categorically states that at no time did the Vice President discuss, counsel, or direct him in any way on any issue concerning Mr Adoke” the statement added.