Former Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has announced that she is prepared to return back to Nigeria to defend all allegations of corrupt charges leveled against her.
Recall, that Alison-Madueke has been in the United Kingdom, UK, since 2015, when former President, Goodluck Jonathan, lost the Presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari.
This came against the backdrop of Obinna Onya, a Lawyer from Abuja, who came to the Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, asking the court to join Diezani as one of the defendants in a charge.
The Lawyer denied that the former Minister was at large, arguing that the woman was in the UK, and is willing to return to Nigeria to defend the charges against her.
Onya argued that it would be against Diezani’s right to a fair hearing, if the case is heard and she is not given the opportunity to defend herself.
“The statement made by the prosecution means that the applicant (Diezani) is going to be convicted, without being given the opportunity to defend herself”, Onya told the trial Judge.
The application is seeking to mandate “the Attorney-General of the Federation, being the agent of the complainant, to facilitate the prompt appearance of the applicant in court on the next adjourned date, to take her plea, and to defend the allegations made against her in counts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the charge, numbered FHC/L/35c/2017.”
In his own argument however, the Counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, said the application was not ripe for hearing.
He also argued that he had not been served.
Nonetheless, Onya said he attempted to serve the application on Oyedepo at the court premises, but that the latter declined, while his effort to reach the EFCC was frustrated.
Responding, the court asked that all the parties in the application be served before the court would entertain it.
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