ALLEGATION OF $20 MILLION BRIBE TRAILS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

…THE TERRY WAYA CONNECTION

Terry Waya

The recent arrest of well known Nigerian socialite and controversial businessman, Mr. Terry Waya has triggered off a hail of allegations of witch-hunt and distribution of bribe dough against the Minister of justice and Attorney General, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa to influence the up-coming ruling by the Supreme Court on the validity of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Mr. Aondoakaa is being accused alongside the Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri of distributing about $20 Million (N2 Billion) to some Supreme Court Justices to influence their ruling in favor of President Yar’Adua.

According to highly placed sources, Mr. Waya was allegedly picked up at the weekend and quickly slammed with what has been described by Aso Rock insider as “untrue allegations” of influence peddling and extortion of huge sums from some Governors whom he purportedly promised to shield from possible prosecution from the EFCC.

Pointblanknews.com learnt that Waya must have landed himself in trouble by virtue of his knowledge of an alleged contrivance by both the Attorney General and Mrs. Waziri to “disburse huge sums” allegedly sourced from the Governors of Benue, Rivers, Bayelsa and Katsina states.

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The huge sums estimated at $20 Million was said to have been mobilized at the behest of unnamed “Presidential aide” and was said to have been directed at “easing the final decision of the Supreme Court Justices.

However, while some of the eminent benchers were alleged to have received their own share of the booty, Justices G A Oguntade and Niki Tobi were said to have rejected $1 Million each offered them while maintaining that they would act in good conscience and “may not need any facilitation to interpret the law.

Impeccable sources told pointblanknews.com that the emissaries of Aondoakaa and Waziri used the guise of a condolence visit, during the recent lost of a close relation of Justice Tobi to push the “huge envelope” which he was said to have declined. The circumstances of the offer to Oguntade were not too clear.

It was said that Aondoakaa saw to it that the hurriedly mobilized $20 Million had been exhaustively spread around within the last one week.

It would be recalled that at least three of the seven Supreme Court Justices expressed strong misgivings about the degree of alleged electoral malpractices during Yar’Adua’s context with Buhari, Atiku and others in 2007.

At least the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, the EFCC Chairperson and two other prominent presidential legal aides reportedly worked to persuade the court to thwart Atiku and Buhari’s formidable challenges.