The
Presidency has responded to an allegation by a witness detailing how
President Muhammadu Buhari through his lawyer bribed a justice over his
certificate scandal.
Justice Niyi Ademola of the Federal High Court
The Presidency on Wednesday denied reports that a Senior Advocate
of Nigeria, Kola Awodein, gave Justice Niyi Ademola of the Federal High
Court, currently standing trial for alleged corruption, N500,000 bribe on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari to cover the certificate brouhaha that enveloped his 2015 Presidential campaign.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi
Adesina, insisted that Buhari even challenged the elections of 2003,
2007, and 2011, up to the Supreme Court and was never named as trying to
compromise any judge.
“Nigerians know that President Buhari challenged the elections
of 2003, 2007, and 2011, up to the Supreme Court, and not once was he
named as trying to compromise any Judge, though some of them were his
schoolmates, or contemporary, at one time or the other.
“It is in keeping with the President’s time-tested reputation
as a man of truth and integrity. Any attempt to sully that reputation is
bound to fail, inexorably,” he said.
Adesina then reproduced Awodein’s statement on the matter as follows, “I
am constrained to make in absolute good faith, in good conscience and
in the interest of justice and fair play the following very short
statement on account of the distorted news story currently being peddled
as affecting the person of Mr President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria and my good and very noble self.
“The very simple and plain facts are as follows:
“I have known as a friend and for well over 35 years Mr Justice
Niyi Ademola, a notorious fact known to the majority of lawyers who
have practised especially in Lagos for over that same period more or
less and also to so many other professionals of other disciplines and
other prominent and not so prominent Nigerians.
“It is a fact that the sum of money mentioned was personally
paid by me as a friend to Mr. Justice Ademola as a personal gift, as our
custom well recognises and demands, on the occasion of his daughter’s
High Society wedding solemnized at the Cathedral Church of Christ,
Marina, Lagos, on the 9th of May 2015, which I attended in person.
“I was fully convinced then, as I remain today, that I could do
no less as a friend of longstanding to fairly reasonably support him on
that memorable occasion of his daughter’s wedding.
“Anyone and everyone who knows me would readily and
unquestionably testify that I am and have always been a man of
impeccable integrity on and off the Courts and that such a record speaks
always loudly for itself.
“I would conclude by stating categorically and without any
equivocation that ANY link whatsoever with Mr. President, or any court
case or cases, of my personal gift from my personal resources delivered
to Justice Niyi Ademola by myself on that occasion or any suggestion
whatsoever that it was anything but such a gift or that it ever came
from Mr President or at his instance or that I was acting, under any
circumstances, on his behalf is most malicious, utterly ridiculous and
in very very poor and revolting taste and most undeserving of any
further comments.”
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