JUST IN: Ex-NNPC Boss, Andrew Yakubu Drops N1bn Suit Against EFCC

By Ganiyat Ganiyu

Abuja, (An24) – Mr. Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Tuesday withdrew the N1bn fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Recall that, Yakubu had filed the suit before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja following his arrest on February 8, 2017 and his continued detention by the EFCC with respect to the sums of $9,772,800 and £74,000 recovered from his mud like house in Kaduna on February 3.

At the resumed hearing of his case on Tuesday, Yakubu’s lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, informed the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Mohammed that he had filed a notice of discontinuance of the suit on behalf of his client (Yakubu).

The lawyer cited the recent arraignment of the former NNPC boss and the bail subsequently granted him by the court as the grounds for filing the discontinuance notice.

Justice Mohammed thereafter struck out the suit after Adedipe moved his client’s motion for discontinuance.