Independent Anticorruption Practices and Other related Offences (ICPC) has filed a four-count charge against Bello Abubakar, an oncology consultant at the National Hospital, Abuja, accusing him of forging a medical report used to seek bail for former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai on health grounds.
The charges, filed on Friday, accuse the oncology consultant of knowingly issuing a false medical report to mislead a public officer and support Mr El-Rufai’s bail application in a separate case, marked KDH/KAD/ICPC/02/2026, pending before the Kaduna State High Court.
According to the charge sheet, Mr Abubakar authored the report, titled “Medical Report and Expert Opinion for Urgent Medical Intervention,” dated 10 June 2026 — knowing its contents were false- and presented it to a Commissioner for Oaths in Kaduna State before it was filed in court.
The first count accuses Mr Abubakar of giving false information with intent to mislead a public officer, contrary to Section 17(1)(c) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000. The second count alleges he used his position as a medical consultant to confer an unfair advantage on himself by knowingly issuing the false report, an offence under Section 19 of the same Act.
A third count accuses Mr Abubakar, a professor, of forming a common intention with Aliyu Bala to fabricate false information, specifically authoring the report to enable Mr Bala to depose a further affidavit in support of the bail application, contrary to Section 79 of the Penal Code.
The fourth count accuses him of dishonestly making a false document, presenting the report as though it carried the authority of the National Hospital, when he allegedly knew the document was not authorized by the hospital, an offence under Sections 362 and 364 of the Penal Code.