Wednesday, 22 February 2017
"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
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's 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 solemnised 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 long-standing 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 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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