Former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has filed a libel suit against the Attorney General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
According to a writ of summons issued on her behalf at the Federal High Court in Abuja by her team of attorneys led by Mike Ozekhome (SAN), she is seeking N100 billion in damages.
A copy of the suit seen by the media on Friday night directed the “Defendants jointly and severally to pay to the Claimant the sum of N100,000,000,000.00 (100 billion naira) only as damages for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications against the Claimant in the 1st Defendant’s publishing platform, and at the instance of both the 1st and the 2nd Defendants.”
The former minister is also requesting that the EFCC and AGF apologize to her in three national daily for what she calls “false, injurious, malicious, and libelous publications” against her since she departed Nigeria in 2015.
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Both the EFCC and the AGF were allowed 14 days from the date the summons was served to file their defense.
Below is the writ of summons:
