Following the seizure of the house of former Nigeria Football Federation vice president, Alh Shehu Dikko by the ICPC, the former has replied the anti-corruption agency.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had seized the former NFF big whip for corruption, stating that the value of the property in question is far in excess of past and present earnings of the former LMC Chairman.
However, Dikko has replied the ICPC through his legal representatives, stating that those properties were acquired by their principal before he became the vice president of the NFF.
"This unfair media trial has been going on since 2019 when the ICPC published notices in newspapers for seizure of my client's and his colleagues' assets without any court order to back the forfeiture of my client's assets nor inviting our clients to explain," said Mohammed Sani Katu.
"We immediately engaged the ICPC and they invited our client to provide documents on the properties and he honoured and provided all proofs to show that all his assets are legitimate.
"Fundamentally, the fact is that my client own the properties long before he joined NFF in 2015," Katu told BBC Sport Africa.
Katu, Dikko representative asserts that the case should have been thrown out and demands an apology for his client even as the anti-corruption says it will continue to investigate Nigeria's big football figures.
There are reports of that the ICPC is still investigating other former and present top guns in the NFF; Amaju Pinnick, Seyi Akinwunmi and Ahmed Fresh.