- The story of Diezani Alison-Madueke’s fraud allegations is set to premiere this year
- The film project, spearheaded by media mogul, Chude Jideonwo, is centred around Madueke’s fraud allegations at home and abroad
- It is titled “Is it Your Money? The Story of Diezani Alison-Madueke”
Nigerian TV host and media veteran, Chude Jideonwo, has disclosed that former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke will be the subject of a documentary titled “Is it Your Money? The Story of Diezani Alison-Madueke,” which will premiere later this year.
Story based on Madueke’s fraud allegations
The documentary investigates claims of corruption from her time as Minister for Petroleum Resources, with the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) pursuing legal action against her for alleged corruption offences after she left office.
Alison-Madueke was sworn in office by the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, in April 2010 as the first female to hold the position of Minister of Petroleum Resources in the country.
In October 2010, she made history by becoming the first woman to head a national delegation at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) conference.
Additionally, she was the pioneer female Minister of Transportation and the first woman appointed to the board of the Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria.
She was also elected as OPEC's first female president on November 27, 2014, breaking new ground in the organisation's history.
All these achievements, though, would not stop Alison-Madueke from rewriting history in a negative way as well. As loud as her achievements were, so were the allegations after she left office.
Chude says it’s Nigeria’s biggest documentary series
Jideonwo, who is spearheading the documentary, says it is the “biggest-budget docu-series from our dear country” in an Instagram post on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
“Over the past two years, a 100+ member team has been working quietly on the most ambitious, biggest-budget docu-series project from our dear country. Shot across 3 countries, Covering 8 cities, We traced confirmed and alleged loot across 15 jurisdictions. With exclusive access to investigators from the FBI, the MET Police, and the EFCC,” the co-founder of RED added.
The documentary's co-producers include Judith Audu, Eromo Egbejule, and Jideonwo, with the executive production handled by Jideonwo, Mfon Ekpo, Yemi Adamolekun, Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, and Capital Film Productions.
Netizens react to documentary on Alison-Madueke
Netizens who have been following the former minister's fraud allegations have been actively discussing it on social media. TheRadar compiled some of them below:
“Werin remain for this country self??” @Lekzidex asked.
“Wow. Diezani to the world,” Kaseun Albert expressed.
“She's the chairlady of the WWPA (Wicked Women in Politics Association). Worldwide,” Banwuzia D.E. Pryse added.
“On top of this 6ft. Smh. The beast be looking like a regular broke woman and she is a money eating machine,” Lee_Xchange tweeted.
“Let her face the UK judicial system that she cannot corrupt. Sebi she ran away on her own, no one is stopping her from coming back to Nigeria. She knows that the Nigerian judicial system can be bought,” @Bayo Adedosu added on X.
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