Court dismisses Diezani’s application to be repatriated to Nigeria

A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed an application by the Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Naija News recalls that Alison-Madueke, petitioned the court to to compel the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, to bring her back to Nigeria.

She filed the application requesting to be brought back to the country to defend a criminal charge bordering on alleged laundering of N450 million.

The presiding judge, Justice Rilwan Aikawa consented to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) assertion that the application is misconceived and amounts to “a misuse of the court process”.

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The court also stated that having not been listed as a defendant in the charge, there is no offence yet being leveled against the former minister and she is “merely crying wolf where there is none”.

Justice Aikawa said Mrs Alison-Madueke did not also refute the allegations made by the EFCC that she is currently on bail in the UK where she is being probed for various financial crimes and her filing of the application was merely a scheme to escape justice in the U.K.

Consequently, the judge pronounced that his court will not be used to achieve such an objective. In the final analysis, he declared that Mrs Alison-Madueke’s application lacks merit and it is accordingly dismissed.