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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

ALLEGED 33.8BN: MAMMAH ACCUSES OWN LAWYER OF MISREPRESENTATION. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.


 Alleged 33.8bn: Mammah Accuses Own  Lawyer of Misrepresentation


The First Defence Witness in the trial within trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 told a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice James Omotosho that his lawyer misrepresented him while taking his statements at the EFCC`s office.


Mamman is being prosecuted by the EFCC on a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit money laundering to the tune of N33,804,830,503.73 (Thirty-three Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Five Hundred and Three Naira, Seventy-three Kobo).


At Wednesday’ proceedings, the defendant, who doubled as first defence witness while being led in evidence by his counsel Femi Atteh, SAN recalled that he went to EFCC`s office on February 20, 2025 with his lawyer when EFCC`s prosecutors interviewed him.


During cross examination by prosecution Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, He disclosed that he authorized his lawyer, Mohammed Ahmed to write his statements on his behalf which he signed but accused him of fabricating some portion of the statements, claiming that he was not sure if all he said was what his lawyer wrote.


When asked to identify from the statement exhibits the fabricated portion of the statement, he added that he couldn’t  remember.


He however confirmed that as at the time of his invitation, there was no  maltreatment, threats of imprisonment on the part of EFCC officials.


Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter to July 15, 2024 for adoption of written addresses.

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