A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has rejected an application by a previous Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke encouraging it to force the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, to take her back to Nigeria.
Diezani had brought the application under the steady gaze of the court making a request to be taken back to Nigeria to shield a criminal allegation verging on asserted washing of N450 million.
Equity Rilwan Aikawa in a decision on the issue concurred with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that the application is confounded and sums to "an abuse of the court procedure".
The court likewise held that having not been recorded as a respondent in the charge, there is no offense yet being made against the Former Minister and she is "only falsely sounding the alarm where there is none".
As per Justice Aikawa, Mrs Alison-Madueke did not likewise preclude the cases from securing the EFCC that she is as of now on safeguard in the UK where she is being explored for a few money related wrongdoings and her recording of the application was only a ploy to escape equity in the U.K.
The judge decided that his court won't be utilized to accomplish this point. In the last examination, he pronounced that Mrs Alison-Madueke's application needs legitimacy and it is in like manner expelled.
The court has continued with the trial of the case.
It will be reviewed that Mrs Alison-Madueke had flown out to the UK soon after leaving office in 2015.
Through an application documented for her sake by her legal counselors, she said she might want to show up in court in Nigeria to guard herself in the charges made by the EFCC against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Belgore; and a previous Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman.
Belgore and Suleiman were charged before Justice Rilwan Aikawa on February 8, 2017 for professedly gathering N450 million from Mrs Alison-Madueke and washing same in the development to the 2015 general races.
The EFCC, which documented the charges, asserted that the N450 million was a piece of a bigger aggregate of $115 million which the previous Petroleum Minister purportedly doled out to trade off the 2015 general decisions.
The SAN and the Professor were summoned on five checks, in four of the tallies, Mrs Alison-Madueke's name was specified, yet she was proclaimed as being "on the loose."
In her application looking to be joined as a respondent in the charges, the previous Minister contended that since her name had been specified in the charge, it would be against her entitlement to reasonable hearing for the case to continue without bearing her the chance to safeguard herself.
She additionally battled that as opposed to the statement by the EFCC that she was everywhere, she was in the UK and was ready to come back to Nigeria with the goal that she could show up in court to take her request and guard the charges.
Her application appealed to God for a request "commanding the Attorney General of the Federation, being the specialist of the complainant, to encourage her incite appearance in court on the following deferred date, to take her supplication and to safeguard the claims made against her in checks 1, 2,3 and 4 of the charge. Be that as it may, the EFCC had restricted the move.
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