Former Minister of Petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has told a federal high court in the Abuja division that cancer treatment made her stay away from the country since May 2015 .
Diezani-Madueke told the court that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Attorney-General of the federation defamed her by claiming she is corrupt.
She recalled that toward the end of the tenure of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, she was diagnosed with “the most aggressive form of breast cancer” which she identified as “Triple Negative Cancer”.
The former three-time minister is asking for damages of N100 billion “for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications” as contained in writ of summons against EFCC and AGF
marked CV/6273/2023
She said she hurriedly flew to England on May 22, 2015 “in order to undertake a critical course of treatment, which consisted of two operations, eight months of intensive chemotherapy and five weeks of radiotherapy”.
Since then, she said in the court papers, she has remained in England “undergoing medical care and treatment”.
The suit, marked CV/6273/23, was file by her counsel, Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate.
The EFCC and AGF were given 14 days from the service of the summons to enter their defence.
Alison-Madueke was minister of transportation (and later mines and steel development) from 2007 to 2009 under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua before serving as petroleum minister under President Goodluck Jonathan from 2010 to 2015.
Do you want to share a story with us? Do you want to advertise with us? Do you need publicity for a product, service, or event? Contact us on WhatsApp +2348183319097 Email: platformtimes@gmail.com
We are committed to impactful investigative journalism for human interest and social justice. Your donation will help us tell more stories. Kindly donate any amount HERE
