Diezani Alison-Madueke: accusations according to which I transferred billions of dollars to the governor of Zamfara “false, harmful, a calculated attempt to smear my name”

The former oil minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, denied the reports circulating on social media, claiming to have made statements that connect it to the transfer of billions of dollars to the governor of the state of Zamfara, Dauda Lawal.

Thursday, in a declaration of his family, the legal representatives and the Bayelsa Youth Association, led by its interim president, the companion Bigbo Solomon, the former minister described the statements as “false, harmful and a calculated attempt to smear his name of the public domain”.

According to the declaration, Mrs. Alison-Madueke has never made such observations and has no financial relations with the governor Lawal, nor past or present.
The group stated that the relationships seem deliberately timed to distract the public during a period of national difficulties and to interfere with its current legal issues in the United Kingdom.

“It is not the first time that the false narratives have been planted in the media to distort the facts and damage his reputation,” reads the declaration, adding that the former minister remains committed to erase his name through the appropriate legal channels.

The group has urged the media and the general public to pay attention to the management of unsolicited relationships, underlining that journalism has the responsibility of informing rather than falling out. They also invited safety agencies and regulators to investigate and exhibit those who described the one they described as a “falsehood campaign”.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke, who faced a series of accusations since she left the assignment in 2015, reiterated her will to defend itself within the borders of the right trial and the law, rather than in the “Court of public opinion”.