former President of the Nigerian Bar
Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN),
has disclosed that there was no Nigerian
that former President Goodluck Jonathan
feared more than Bola Tinubu, a national
leader of the All Progressives Congress,
APC.
Olanipekun said this while recounting how
he handled Tinubu’s case at the Code of
Conduct Bureau, CCB, as well as another
case involving Jonathan simultaneously.
Olanipekun recalled in an interview with
Punch that Jonathan’s camp “believed
they were contesting election against him
(Tinubu), as the arrowhead of the
opposition.
“One thing I also noticed was that
Jonathan’s team started withdrawing
from me gradually because of the Tinubu
factor.
“A lady, whose name I don’t want to
mention, called me one day and said
‘these people are in trouble, why are they
running away from you?'”
The SAN further stated that former
President Umaru Yar’Adua would have
been the best president Nigeria ever had.
“He was a gentleman per excellence but
was overwhelmed by his illness. He was
so humble, intelligent, honest and frugal.
“He was the one who appointed me as
Pro Chancellor of the University of Ibadan
and he told me, Wole, I know you are
going to help me revive and revamp that
place.


“Thank God we did that eventually. We
changed the entire face of the university.”
On war against corruption, the senior
lawyer said while he prays for woe betide
anybody who has looted the treasury or
any person who uses position to amass
wealth, President Muhammadu Buhari
and his government should stop
describing Nigeria as a country that is
corrupt.
“If you know some judges are corrupt,
deal with them, but don’t go to another
country to say that the judiciary in your
country is corrupt; nobody will come
there because it is about investment and
the rule of law.
“And when you talk of corruption among
lawyers, who are the people? It takes two
to tango. Let every politician in Nigeria
swear by the god of thunder that he has
not tried to induce a judge.
“Let the President take a cue from the
United States President, Barack Obama.
George W. Bush squandered American
funds on the Gulf War as President of the
US because he wanted Saddam Hussein
by all means –dead or alive- after the
September 11 attack.
“The economy of the US was comatose
when Obama took over, but did you hear
him say any bad thing about Bush? He
had his own agenda. He started issuing
presidential orders and proclamations
and within two or three years, the
economy was revived without him
condemning anybody.
“To me, government is a continuum. I’m
not in the Peoples Democratic Party or
the APC; I don’t even see any difference
between the two of them when it is so
easy for the PDP people to move to the
APC and immediately become
progressives. You don’t sell that to me.
Mr. President should have an inclusive
government”, he added.
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