‘There’s family dispute’ — MKO Abiola’s children warn energy firm against doing business with Summit OilFour children of MKO Abiola have warned Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria against doing business with Summit Oil company.was founded by Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election, in 1990 “to embrace the independent indigenous upstream oil company concept”.
The letter, which was addressed to the CEO of Halliburton, was signed by Olalekan Abiola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Khalifa Abiola, and Abdul Mumuni Abiola.The aforementioned persons alleged that Summit Oil is enmeshed in a legal dispute over allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds by two other members of the Abiola family.
“As you may be aware, Summit Oil Company, being a legacy company formed by our late father, is currently embroiled in a serious legal dispute involving allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds by two members of the Abiola family.“It has come to our attention that your company has entered into a partnership with Summit Oil, under the management of these two persons, to re-enter and work the Oil Well to bring it back to production.
“By entering into that agreement, your company may be inadvertently aiding and abetting a fraudulent scheme.