The former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, in his new book-”Burden of Service: Reminisces of Nigeria’s Former Attorney General’ says there was nothing Obasanjo and his government could have done to stop the action, which had already received the blessing of the United Nations under the leadership of Kofi Annan.
Adoke in his new book-”Burden of Service: Reminisces of Nigeria’s Former Attorney General’, pointed out that it was already too late in 2007 for the Nigerian government to reverse the October 10, 2002 ruling of the International Court of Justice, which had given Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroun.
The former minister also advanced reasons he opposed the duo of the then Governor Lyel Imoke of Cross River State and Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, who tried desperately to get President Goodluck Jonathan to get agreement reviewed.
According to him, the belated attempt by the Nigerian Senate in 2007 to impugn the Greentree Agreement, six months after Obasanjo had left office was an exercise in futility, which he knew would not reverse the crucial decision of the ICJ and for which he was labeled a saboteur.