An operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) has told an FCT High Court that investigation revealed that a lawyer representing President Muhammadu Buhari before Justice Adeniyi Ademola also gave a gift of N500,000 to the judge while having a case before the judge.
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An operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) has told an FCT High Court that investigation revealed that a lawyer representing President Muhammadu Buhari before Justice Adeniyi Ademola also gave a gift of N500,000 to the judge while having a case before the judge.
Babatunde Adepoju, under cross examination by Barrister Jeph Njikonye told the court that while interviewing Joe Agi, SAN (the 3rd defendant), he was told that President Buhari’s lawyer, Kola Awodehin (SAN) also passed a gift of N500,000 to Justice Ademola during the wedding of his daughter.
He added that Agi submitted that the gift of N30million his (Agi) client gave him to give Justice Ademola was not the only wedding gift the judge received.
He said Agi told him that the time Awodehin gave the gift to Justice Ademola, Buhari’s certificate suit was pending before the judge. He said he however did not investigate this assertion further.
Njikonye tendered the certified true copy of the record of proceedings in the suit between Chukwu Okafor vs General Muhammad Buhari and it was admitted in evidence as Exhibit FFF. From this document, the witness confirmed that the third counsel for Buhari in the suit was Kola Awodehin. He also confirmed the suit was before Justice Ademola.
When asked if President Buhari was bribing the judge to win his case by presenting a wedding gift to the judge while President had a case before him, the witness said “No. In my opinion, it would be speculative to say the gift by President Buhari lawyer was a bribe to Justice Ademola. It is not a bribe.”
Source: dailytrust.com.ng
