Security Agents Whisk Away Ex-AGF Adoke On Arrival To Nigeria
Nigeria’s former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke has returned to the country from United Arab Emirates (UAE).
THE WHISTLER learnt that Adoke’s aircraft touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at about 3:40pm on Thursday.
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Adoke left Dubai on Emirates Airlines Flight 785 which departed the Emirati commercial capital at 11:00 a.m. Dubai time (8: 00 a.m Nigerian time)
He was, thereafter, whisked away by security operatives to the office of INTERPOL in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
His arrival capped a five-week ordeal in Emirati detention. He was arrested by Interpol on November 11 after arriving in the UAE for medical check-up and summarily taken into custody.
His arrest followed an Interpol red alert which the Nigerian government had issued against him as part of the ongoing litigation over the controversial Malabu Oil deal.
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But the UAE authorities freed him after Nigeria failed to provide legal basis and other requisite bilateral supports to justify his continued detention.
The arrest warrant upon which Adoke was arrested had long being nullified by the same judge that issued it. But the Nigerian government failed to update Interpol appropriately.
