Former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye, has filed a N1 billion lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for declaring him wanted.
In the suit filed on his behalf by his legal team led by Adeola Adedipe (SAN), Agunloye who served as a minister under under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleged that the EFCC unlawfully published his name on its website’s wanted list, stating that the deliberate act of the EFCC was orchestrated to project him negatively in the international community.
The lawsuit filed under the case number FHC/ABJ/CS/167/2024 also includes the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi as an additional defendant alongside the original filing.
