James Ibori, the former governor of Delta state, may be making an early return to Nigeria from the United Kingdom prison in London.

This comes on the heels of a report on The Cable, that the ex-governor is hopeful his conviction by a British court will be overturned. This was disclosed in a statement by his spokesman, Tony Eluemunor.

According to Eluemunor, the UK director of public prosecution applied to drop the case against Bhadresh Gohil, one of Ibori’s lawyers, over an alleged attempt to distort justice.

Gohil had alleged that the London Metropolitan Police officers investigating Ibori and others were involved in bribery and corruption.

Thus, if confirmed true could raise doubts on the initial convictions on Ibori.

James Ibori hopeful his coviction will be overturned

Eluemunor added that Sasha Wass, the crown prosecutor, said the UK authorities were no longer interested in pursuing the case against Gohil, however, the reason for this is yet to ascertained.

Eluemunor said:“The Prosecution’s dropping of the case on Thursday will have a knock on effect on the confiscation case against Ibori and Gohil scheduled for May as Judge Testar has ordered that materials withheld from Ibori and associates be made available to their legal teams – including the lawyers of Christine Ebie and Udoamaka Onuigbo (his sister and former wife respectively, earlier convicted).

“Also, the defence lawyer, Kamlish, informed the Judge that he would ask the Court of Appeal to retry the case afresh, as though it would be handling a totally new case. This means that the earlier convictions may be overturned if such an appeal sails through.”

Eluemunor added that the judge“immediately ordered that the all the materials the prosecution had withheld from the defence be made available to Ibori’s and all his associates’ legal team”.

“Kamlish said their case had been contested on two very simple basis: firstly, that Gohil’s allegations that the Police Officers investigating the Ibori case were corrupt were true, and was central to all the cases already decided; and secondly, that the Prosecution had suppressed critical material in the trials of James Ibori and in the Court of Appeal, and that was the reason why they were about to enter into an abuse of court process argument. Thus, said the lawyer, the Crown’s pleading of no evidence on Thursday shows that the allegations are true.”

James Ibori, has been serving a 13-year sentence to prison in the UK.

He was sentenced to jail in the United Kingdom on corruption charges since 2012.

Reference:
http://holutech..in/2016/01/nego-read-why-ibori-might-be-leaving-uk.html

Dis man should just die.All pun intended

Why should the charge be dropped? when Ibori openly plea guilty to the charge against him?
This report is gibberish...