Once you are marked out by the state as an adversary, the evidence does not matter. Adoke and others must count themselves lucky indeed.
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This encouraged a significant number of persons – academics, lawyers, Nigerians at home and in diaspora, medical experts, engineers and accountants – to elect to serve their country, if only to prove to the soldiers that the civilian populace could govern and that democracy is the best form of government. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo emerged from the residue of the 1993 – 1999 crisis as Nigerian president. In fairness to him, he bought into this logic and recruited personnel from across the spectrum.
The Jonathan administration under which he served lost the 2015 presidential election to an opposition party, the All Progressives Congress , which has been ruling Nigeria since then till date. As soon as the PDP lost the election, the APC, even before assuming office, went after the Jonathan officials. Adoke was one of the main targets. In August 2015, he left Nigeria for further studies at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
In Nigeria, politics is more important than the law. Cases are delayed and you could be on trial for years, even when you are innocent. Once you are marked out by the state as an adversary, the evidence does not matter. Mohammed Bello Adoke and others must count themselves lucky indeed. It is now possible to see reason in Adoke’s argument that he considers himself the target of a witch-hunt by the Nigerian government.
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