JUST IN: Court discharges Adoke, Abubakar, five others over alleged Malabu oil deal

) in Jabi has discharged former Attorney General of the Federation , Mohammed Adoke and six others charged with alleged fraudulent conduct in the handling of the controversial Oil Prospecting License 245 .

Justice Abubakar Kutigi, in a ruling on Thursday, upheld the no-case submissions made by all the defendants in the 40-count amended charge, marked: FCT/HC/CR/151/2020.Justice Kutigi, held that the prosecution failed to lead evidence in prove of the essential elements in relation to the offences charged.

Justice Kutigi held that allowing the case to remain in court will do untold injustice to the defendants, who ought not to be tried on the charge in the first place.

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