Aondoakaa - Pointblanknews.com
Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa is intensifying his efforts at frustrating attempt to prosecute discredited former Delta State Governor, Mr. James Ibori. There are strong confirmations that Mr. Ibori buoyed by assurances of reprieve, from the Attorney General, returned to Nigeria at the weekend.
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Aondoakaa who recently visited the United States was loquacious and vulgar as ever. He told critics of former Governor Ibori to hands off and look elsewhere.
According to sources, the minister whose stands and methodology in the crusade against corruption in Nigeria has increasingly become annoying and unpopular was said to have reduced the crime of Ibori as an attempt to be “scape-goated.” “They are scape-goating Ibori. Why are they not going after other equally guilty individuals? Ibori is not the only one who stole.”
Aondoakaa while enjoying a bowl of pepper soup with his Nigerian friends at the popular Maruche Restaurant in the Bronx, New York insisted that “Ibori is not the only one that stole.”
A source told Pointblanknews.com that Aondoakaa who is on the pay roll of Ibori queried a Nigerian publisher in New York on the on-going “bad press” against the embattled former Governor. Before the Nigerian publisher could utter a word, the Attorney General who appeared battle ready was quoted to have said “you people should just leave Ibori alone. He is not the only person who has stolen.”
The Attorney General who seized the opportunity of his visit to the United States for the Wilbros investigations met with friends and cronies of Mr. Ibori. A source told pointblanknews.com that “the meeting was to further keep Ibori’s money away from U.S authorities and as you know, Aondoakaa had promised to do whatever it takes to save Ibori from his predicaments.”
Ibori, the man caught in the critical eye of storm left Ghana at the weekend. Like a leaf tossed back and forth by waves of a flowing stream, the embattled former Governor is finding no resting ground. Ibori who was spotted a couple of weeks ago at the African Regent Hotel, Accra, owned by the family of Ghanaian President, Mr. John Kufour has now returned back to Nigeria.
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Now a fugitive from the law after being indicted by both British and Nigerian authorities on allegations of money laundering and embezzlement of public funds, Ibori was said to have been counseled to take off by the Nigerian Attorney General and Minister of Justice Mr. Aondoakaa.
However, gambling on assurances served him by Aondoakaa, Ibori decided to “return home.”
Mr. Aondoakaa has been roundly condemned for indulging and shielding Ibori from being prosecuted in London and Nigeria.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that acting on tips that he could be arrested for possible trial in due course, the former Governor decided to escape in order to frustrate the intricate legal process.
But the British Police insisted that there would be no hiding place for the former Governor whose trial promises to bring to fore the looting extravaganza that pervaded his eight year reign as Governor of the oil rich Delta State.
When Pointblanknews.com called the African Regent Hotel in Accra, a front desk staff who refused to give her name said “we don’t have that name here but the person you are describing has left the hotel.”
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