Anti-corruption groups, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Corner House and Re: Common have asked the Inspector General of Police to investigate former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke; former Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete and Abubakar Aliyu over forgery allegations linked to the OPL245 scandal.
The group also asked the Nigeria police to contact JPMC and the SFO of United Kingdom, to seek their verification of the origins of the email through forensic analysis contrary to attempts by Adoke and his lawyers to get the police to harass and intimidate HEDA and its Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju.
The petition read, “The allegation that we forged the email is entirely fanciful. Our own research confirms that the email is associated with a Mr Aliyu Abubakar and two of his companies which benefited from the OPL 245 deal. If, as claimed by Mr Adoke (SAN), the email was not sent by him, there is thus a strong likelihood that…