A
lawyer accused of giving N500,000 bribe on behalf of President
Muhammadu Buhari has confessed that he gave the justice the said amount.
President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer, Kola Awodein, SAN, has
admitted giving the sum of N500,000 to Justice Niyi Ademola of the
Federal High Court who is currently standing trial for alleged
corruption.
According to Vanguard, Awodein admitted this in a statement he
issued following the revelation by a witness in court yesterday. In the
statement, Awodein said he gave the judge the money as a personal gift
on the occasion of his daughter’s high society wedding solemnization.
He added that it was utterly ridiculous to say that he gave the
money at the instance of the president Buhari during his no certificate
saga as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC.
The statement below reads in full:
“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 majority of lawyers who
have practiced 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 recognizes 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.” Awodein said.
The Special Adviser to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina had on Wednesday, denied that Buhari bribed Justice Ademola.
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