Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Adoke (SAN) under GEJ, has said he needs to be released from detention to enable him to attend to his failing health.

His plea came on the heels of the expiration order of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja permitting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to detain him for a period of 14 days.

The order expired on Friday. The ex-AGF, who was arrested by the EFCC on returning from a four-year self-exile on December 19, 2019, is being investigated over his alleged role in the $1.1bn Oil scam.

The commission on December 20, 2019 obtained the first order of the FCT High Court permitting it to detain him for 14 days.

On January 2, the anti-graft agency obtained the second 14-day detention order which expired on Friday.

Meanwhile, in the series of affidavits which he filed along with his bail application before the court and obtained by Saturday PUNCH on Friday, Adoke has denied EFCC’s fresh allegations of his involvement in the $9.6bn Process and Industrial Development judgment scam, and the Halliburton bribery case.

The ex-AGF, who was in office from April 2010 to May 2015, had applied for bail on health grounds.

He added that he voluntarily returned to the country to face the Malabu Oil scam charges already instituted against him.

The EFCC opposed the bail application insisting in its counter-affidavit that the ex-AGF was forced to return to the country to face the charges already filed against him since 2016.

It added, “There is no evidence before the court to show the defendant/applicant has suffered a relapse from any of sicknesses again to entitle him to rely on ill-health as a ground for this application.”

Adding that the case against the ex-AGF was weighty, it said he was being investigated for other allegations apart from the Malabu Oil case