See How Ex-President Atiku’s Wife, Titi Abubakar, Was Defrauded of N918m

Mrs. Aminat Titi Abubakar, wife of former Nigeria’s Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has explained to a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, how a man named Nsikakabasi Akpan, a former governorship aspirant, defrauded her of the sum of N918 million.

Leadership reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, who was the preceding Judge on the case, whom before Mrs Atiku made the following statement:

“I have never been inside a court before. Not even a police station in all my life. I am here because I want Justice. All my investment and even profit is gone. I want this to serve as a deterrence to other fraudsters that they can’t defraud people and not face Justice.”

The accused faced a 15 count charge of fraud and stealing N918 million being proceeds of sale of a property situated at Plot C63A , Amuwo Odofin. The company allegedly belonged to Mrs Abubakar, Dan and Fred Holmes both working for Julius Berger at the time. Akpan Jacobs, who also faces a charge for the crimes, doubled as the company’s managing director and secretary was however alleged to have gone to the Corporate Affairs Commission where he altered the share arrangement in his favor. He was alleged to have forged a company board resolution redistributing the shares ownership, giving himself 70 per cent, 15 per cent to Mrs Abubakar, and 15 per cent to Holmes.