A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has sued the Attorney General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for false, libelous publications against her since 2015 when she left the country.
She is demanding N100bn to be paid by the defendants as damages for the publications and also demanded that the EFCC and the AGF should be compelled to apologise to her in three national newspapers.
A copy of the writ of summons filed on her behalf at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by her team of lawyers led by Mike Ozekhome (SAN), stated that 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 libellous publications against the Claimant in the 1st Defendant’s publishing platform, and at the instance of both the 1st and the 2nd Defendants.
Both EFCC and the AGF were then given 14 days enter their defence.