Babatunde Adepoju, a Department of State Services (DSS) operative, has
\nalleged that Kola Adewoyin, counsel to President Muhammadu Buhari, gave
\nAdeniyi Ademola, a judge of the federal high court Abuja, N500,000 while
\nthe president\u2019s certificate forgery case was before him.<\/p>\n
Ademola is one of the judges who was arrested by the DSS. He is currently
\nstanding trial alongside Olubowale, his wife, and Joe Agi, a senior
\nadvocate of Nigeria (SAN).<\/p>\n
Speaking on Tuesday during a cross examination in the trial of Ademola,
\nAdepoju, who is a witness, said Agi told him that the money was given to
\nAdemola during the wedding of the judge\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Adepoju said though he did not carry out any investigation, it would be
\nspeculative to say the money was given to Ademola to influence the forgery
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lawyer gave Justice Ademola N500,000. In my opinion, it would be
\nspeculative to say the gift by President Buhari\u2019s lawyer was a bribe to
\nJustice Ademola. It is not a bribe,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
The DSS operative also said Agi admitted that a gift of N30million was
\ngiven to Ademola.<\/p>\n
Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe, an Abuja-based lawyer, had filed a suit to
\nchallenge the veracity of Buhari\u2019s WAEC result.<\/p>\n
Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe had said Buhari did not meet the educational requirement
\nto contest for the highest office in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He accused Buhari of lying about sitting for the Cambridge West African
\nSchool Certificate (WASC) in 1961.<\/p>\n
At the hearing of the suit on May 26, 2016, Buhari through his counsel had
\nraised an objection to the suit, challenging the mode of service of the
\noriginating summons on him.<\/p>\n
He insisted that he ought to have been served at an address in Kaduna
\ninstead of by substituted means at the national secretariat of the All
\nProgressives Congress (APC) in Abuja.<\/p>\n
However, Justice Ademola, in his ruling, had held that it was incompetent
\nand upheld the service of the originating court processes on Buhari.<\/p>\n
The judge held that the service of the court\u2019s processes on the president
\nthrough the secretariat of the APC was in order as the court summons would
\nget to him even though it was delivered at his party secretariat.<\/p>\n
Dissatisfied with this ruling, Buhari through his legal team has filed a
\nnotice of appeal at the court of appeal, Abuja judicial division on seven
\ngrounds of appeal.<\/p>\n
Buhari had hired 13 SANs, and 10 other counsels.<\/p>\n
Apart from Awodein, some senior lawyers in the case were Wole Olanipekun,
\nLateef Fagbemi, Akin Olujinmi, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Kola Awodein, Taiwo
\nOsipitan, Charles Edosomwan, Emeka Ngige, Femi Atoyebi, Femi Falana, Funke
\nAboyade, H.O. Afolabi, and Muiz Banire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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