On Thursday 1st Nov., the Day of the Solemnity Of All Saints. I read a text on
Facebook from my Brother Barrister Ebun
Olu Adegboruwa Esq., in whom am well pleased. Any reader knows I have respect
for Ebun and when he applied for SAN for the first time I was hoping he would
make the list. Festus Keyamo made the list Falana did Agbakoba did Adegboruwa
is as good as these other progressives.
When people keep asking me to apply for Silk, I
usually refer them to Ms Ayo Obe that they should ask her the former head of
chambers of G O K Ajayi SAN why she refused to apply for SAN at all. I also ask
they should please call Mrs Hairat Balogun Life Bencher to ask why she did not
apply for SAN at all despite her busy practice. Ditto Chief (Mrs) Kuye. Applying for SAN female
Lawyers there are some unholy hurdles about SAN application and you may decide
to keep your soul pure or impure.
NOW To Ebun Adegboruwa:- when you give an opinion do not contradict
it. I give you an example many thought Paul Usoro SAN rigged the NBA election
in connivance with the EC NBA and NBA leadership under the presidency of A B Mahmoud. Usoro SAN was my candidate Ebun didn’t as much as tell
anyone whom he voted for. It is my suspicion however that Ebun voted for Prof.
Ernest Ojukwu SAN Because Femi Falana Olisa Agbakoba Okocha SAN Wole Olanipekin
SAN some former Presidents backed Ernest
Ojukwu. As to A.O Okafor SAN former
Presidents who backed him JB Daudu & Okey Wali SAN.
Yesterday Thurs I sent a text to Ebun, he replied Friday, excerpts “Good morning
Dame, ….. have not (backed) any candidate for NBA election…”. Let’s end the quote there. I asked my good Brother
Ebun you
must have voted for an NBA
presidential candidate. Uptil now my Brother Barrister Ebun has not
disclosed the name of the presidential candidate he voted for in August 2018.
What am I getting at?. Ebun was once persecuted
I said persecuted because you don’t query a Christian Lawyer who donates part of his or her hard earned income to his or her
Church or Pastor or Priest etc. I stop there. EFCC was only bent on clamping
down on Ebun because he was perceived as being overtly democratic in a regime
whose mission was to turn Nigeria into a one party state. Happily that is not
going to happen. I was in the front row of that costly struggle to push back autocracy
and I started not in 2018 but in 2015. In July/August 2018, Femi Adesina sponsored an article in the Nation newspaper
entitled “THE RULE OF LAW IS A BITCH”.
The gravamen of the complaint – Attorney Ajie’s petition to the
Whitehouse in Dec 2015 soon after Buhari’s
first media chat in Dec 2015 and she got
4,440 signatories and she submitted her petition
to US President Obama and things happened which is why SA Media Chief Femi
Adesina is still wailing three years after
Ajie’s petition of Dec 2015. As
you have all observed Buhari has not conceded to another media chat since the first chat in Dec
2015 publicized. https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/carol-ajie-constitutional-lawyer-petitions-obama-asks-buhari-to-resign-id4516989.html
BACK TO MY BROTHER BARRISTER EBUN
Subtle Suggestion. You wrote a published
article on Saturday 27th October, 2018 that the controversy over Buhari’s WAEC
certificate is needless. http://dailypost.ng/2018/10/27/buhari-doesnt-need-waec-certificate-contest-2019-adegboruwa/
On Thursday within a week of your article you
wrote of the two contenders, APC’s Buhari and PDP’s Atiku thus: that one is
looking for his certificate and the other is looking for visa to travel at the
age of 70.
Bros., always try not to contradict yourself to retain respect, Brother. Having exculpated Buhari of his certificate
issues, you are not allowed to taunt him with his certificate saga again. You may
however critique if you may on issues of
pernicious human rights!. Religious intolerance! Recession and Economy! Clamp
Down on Voices of Dissent! Buhari’s Fight
against corruption turns out to be selective and as corrupt or perhaps more corrupt
than the politicians he fights over corruption. Buhari’s Fuel Subsidy Payments. Citizens’ Disappearances and Killings. These
other issues but not WAEC cert following your exculpation pleas.
Do you know during the NBA Presidential
campaigns and after it was alleged that the NBA election was rigged in favour
of Paul Usoro SAN by Mahmoud’s leadership.
I did not say Usoro rigged or you paid EC NBA to rig or you paid CoS
Murray to cook up the election books bcos I don’t know if such took place. And
my views haven’t changed whether he is in my best books or not. I critique him
on visible steps as NBA Presidt.
So you would see for example Usoro’s
post-election conduct. E.G Usoro said
SGF wrote to him a letter dated 31st August 2018 to make nominations
into NHRC and other statutory bodies. One of the first set of letters he would
have received as NBA President perhaps. Assuming SGF wrote on NHRC I don’t believe
Usoro was asked by SGF to make nomination into NHRC. I think it a bunco for a
SAN with T-challenges. It was on 18th
October, 2018 that Usoro said ‘CA I want to nominate you into the Governing
Council of NHRC’. What was Usoro SAN waiting for? Assuming indeed SGF wrote to
him. He was waiting to be seen. That is corruption. He actually said see me and I
retorted “ what?!!
Holy Moses!” That unnecessary argument went on
by phone for some weeks before he
regurgitated NHRC letter purportedly dated 31st August 2018
on 18th October 2018. Usoro
is not a humble person. Humility?. No! A humble person does acquire grateful
personage.
Best regards
Arrorney CN Ajie
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