OYERINDE’S MURDER: OSHIOMHOLE, ADOKE FIGHT IN ASO ROCK

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Muhammed Adoke, nearly exchanged blows inside the Council Chambers before the commencement of Tuesday’s Council of State meeting while arguing over the handling of the prosecution of Oshiomhole’s late aide’s murder case.

Trouble started when Adoke approached the governor and apparently joked about the wrongful referral to him by Edo State Attorney General on the ongoing prosecution of suspects in the murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary to the governor who was shot dead by assailants last year in Benin City. 

OYERINDE’S MURDER: ADOKE DISOWNS DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT •SAYS HIS MINISTRY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CASE

THE Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), on Thursday dissociated himself from the statement credited to  a Deputy Director, Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mr Thompson Olaitigbe, to the effect that the ministry was confused on what to do with the conflicting investigation reports on the gruesome murder of  the Principal Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Olaitan Oyerinde.

Adoke, however, stated that his office had nothing to do with the investigation of Olaitan’s murder.