According to him, the Impeachment of the Defendant circumvented the Constitution, which the
Supreme Court later set aside and he was not aware that the Defendant was charged to Court as a
result of the State of Emergency.
Shown Exhibit D33, the Letter of Petition, he stated that the Signatories to the Petition used
Baroness Cox and an undisclosed privileged contact to hand over their Petition to the British Prime
Minister. The Original Petition was handed over to the undisclosed privileged contact but their
contact did not sign his Acknowledgement Copy of the Petition and he also did not follow up on their
contact to know whether he had given the Petition to the Prime Minister. Finally, on this point, he
agreed he failed to mention he went to the United Kingdom twice.
His Statement to the EFCC was admitted as Exhibit D34, and he could not remember stating whilst at
the Middle Belt Forum, that he attributed the shutdown of the Government to Senator Ibrahim Nasiru
Mantu.
Under Re-Examination, he agreed he wrote his Statement by himself.
DW15, ASP Victor Dilang, a Former Orderly to the Defendant as far back as 1999 when he was a
Governor, explained his job function, and stated that sometime in 2001, the Defendant instructed him
to meet with the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Special Duties at the Secretariat in
Abuja, to pick up a Message. On getting there, the Permanent Secretary enquired of the whereabouts
of the Defendant, to which he replied that he was at the Liaison Office.
The Permanent Secretary then told him he wanted to see the Defendant, and would not release the
Cheque until he assigns someone to him. ASP Victor Dilang then placed a call to the Defendant, who
told him that the Permanent Secretary should attach him with someone who would accompany him to
the Liaison Office. The Permanent Secretary then gave him a Cheque and asked him to sign, which he
did. He identified Exhibit P14 of Page 27 to be where he wrote his name, signed and dated for the
Cheque on the 12th July 2001 and also identified the Cheque as Exhibit P14 of Page 28.
When he collected the Cheque, the Permanent Secretary assigned him with somebody, whose name
he could not recall, who followed him to the Liaison Office. At the Liaison Office, he introduced this
Person to the Defendant and excused himself. After the discussion between that unnamed Person and
the Defendant, he returned and the Defendant gave him a Handwritten Letter, he identified as Exhibit
P4 at Page 2, with an Instruction to collect a Bank Draft of N80million. ASP Victor Dilang, attached
the Cheque to the Letter and together with the Person from the Permanent Secretary, they went to
AllStates Trust Bank Plc., near Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.
At the Bank, they met the Manager of the Bank, who collected the Cheque and the Letter, issued a
Bank Draft of N80million in favour of the Permanent Secretary but they were told to wait for the
Normal Banking Process. After waiting for some hours, the Person who accompanied him, went to see
the Manager in his Office alone. Later, he too was called in and when he got in, ASP Victor Dilang
noted that the Person had signed for the Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) Bank Draft, and he
was also instructed to Sign a Bank Draft of One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) in favour
of the then Minister of Special Duties, Mr. Yomi Edu.
Thereafter, he went to Mr. Yomi Edu’s Office where he personally handed over the Bank Draft to Mr.
Yomi Edu, who then told him he was expecting two Bank Drafts of N100Million each. ASP Victor
Dilang called the Defendant, who upon his conversation with the Minister on phone, further
instructed that he should collect an Account Number from the Minister. The Minister gave him a
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