A former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has denied granting an interview in London recently where she said she used current Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal as a front.
Premium Times reports the former petroleum minister, as describing the report as “fake” and “concocted.”
This is as the EFCC has deleted the post quoting the minister as lamenting the governor’s betrayal from its Instagram handle, saying, it was not authorised.
“I did not grant an interview to anyone and therefore did not say any of the things attributed to me. It is fake news concocted for reasons I do not know,” Mrs Alison-Madueke was quoted as saying.
According to the now deleted viral post Mrs Alison-Madueke begged President Bola Tinubu to permit her to return to Nigeria “to confess to her financial misconduct during her tenure.”
Several media outlets reported that Mrs Alison-Madueke spoke to the press in London after a medical visit, and “expressed her readiness to disclose details of the funds she allegedly misappropriated while in office.”
“I am now a born-again Christian and currently grappling with the second stage of cancer, for which my United Kingdom-based physician has advised me to continue medication for the rest of my life. Yes, no one is flawless, but sometimes, God Almighty permits such occurrences”, the former minister was quoted as saying in the reports she has now debunked.
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