Former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has filed a libel suit against the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) demanding to be paid damages of N100 billion over claims that she is corrupt.
Madueke, in a writ of summons filed on her behalf at a federal high court sitting in Abuja by Mike Ozekhome SAN, on May 26, 2023 also demanded that the EFCC and the AGF should be compelled to apologise to her in three national newspapers “for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications” against her since 2015 when she left the country.
She listed statements and publications issued by the EFCC which she said were intended to lower her reputation and integrity and which she said did indeed lower her reputation and integrity “in the estimation of right-thinking members of the society within and outside Nigeria” and also brought her into “public ridicule, odium, contempt, derision and obloquy”.
