APC
should blame the Lead Counsel in the Abia State
Governorship election petition Chief Olanipekun SAN who had argued one
position of the law in Akwa Ibom State Governorship election petition at
the Supreme
Court 2016 and contemporaneously same time he argued the exact opposite
for his other client Abia State Gov. PDP Abia Won!
APC Akwa Ibom Lost!
I was at the Supreme Court
yesterday Friday and per chance met one of the lawyers who had worked with the
same person in the Governor Adam Oshiomhole’s petition, the learned colleague said the same Chief wOleh
Olanipekun SAN had walked away with all the fees in the election petition
matter in Edo State Governorship race at the time.
The same wOleh Onalipekun
picked the fees in excess of N240M (Two hundred and forty Million Naira) from
Umana/APC in the Akwa Ibom Governorship election matter that he lost after
changing sides and did not pay the juniors over a dozen of them, who worked with
him on the case from different law firms.
Only a person like that
would support Chief JK Gadzama SAN in the race for the “NBA house”. This week
JK Gadzama commissioned his office in Damaturu Crescent Abuja and wOleh
Olanipekun was there.
The Vice President
Professor Yemi Osibanjo SAN whom Gadzama had slated as the Special Guest of
Honour didn’t participate in it at all. CJN read a speech as Chair but won’t
view the chambers, he asked to be excused from inspection. CJ Federal High
Court of Borno State did not participate at all. I am not the only Borno State
'indigene' who didn’t participate as I was born in Maiduguri.
The conspicuous absence of
present and former NBA Presidents except Chief Olanipekun and Bayo Ojo SAN, a
Chartered Arbitrator. Ojo had actually
abandoned the office of the NBA President in 2005 to take up an appointment as the Attorney General of the Federation during the
tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo, to the chagrin of our members because it
was a clear breach of the NBA Constitution. Ojo violated the NBA Constitution. Those
are the two past Presidents Messrs Ojo and Olanipekun with JK Gadzama.
I met a former NBA National
officer at the Supreme Court yesterday Friday Sule Usman Esq and he said to me “are
you in Jos next week for NBA NEC meeting”? Note that Mr Usman wasn’t the lawyer
on the election petition referred in paragraph 2 above. Thank you. NEC members have a safe trip as you set for NEC NBA Jos coming week.
Fruitful deliberations!
CA
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