PROMOTED: In new book, Adoke makes disclosures on Malabu OPL 145 - Premium Times Nigeria

A former minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke has detailed his side of the story on the controversial Malabu oil deal, in a new book released this week.Mr Adoke’s lawyers have released key highlights of the book.*Says he saved Nigeria $2bn fine in the Malabu Deal

One Ms Carlamaria Rumor, said to be of RAI Television in Italy, allegedly had a clandestine phone conversation with Adoke in November 2015 after he had left office. The recording was filed as an exhibit before an Italian court currently trying Shell and Agip-Eni over allegations of corruption in the controversial sale of the oil block to the multinationals in 2011.

He said an online report alleged that he tried to “cozy up” to the said Ms Rumor by offering her millions of dollars in return for a “relationship”. “I also learnt that the number of the telephone that was supposed to have been used in the purported telephone interview was a Nigerian line. As at 5 November 2015 when the conversation reportedly took place, I was in the Netherlands. Furthermore, I had stopped using a Nigerian telephone line as far back as August 2015.”

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