The Asaba Judge trying the Ibori case wrote ne letter to the London Southwark Crown Court Judge trying Udoamaka Okonkwo and others.

Moreover, Aondoakaa played no role in the whle affair!

The purported letter from the trial judge in the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State in the matter of FRN vs. Cheif James Onanefe Ibori and others to a trial court in London did not happen after all, but is only a figment of some peoples imagination; so said Barrister Emeka Arinze, the legal counsel to the former governor of Delta State, Mr James Ibori.

Furthermore, information available to us indicates that it was a London Lawyer that wrote Mr. Arinze, who then replied on the strength of the letter from Asaba Court, but he attached that relevant letter (below) from the Registrar of Asaba Federal High Court; “that is what they claim came from the Asaba Judge”, An Ibori associate emphasized.

In a strongly worded rebuttal to Justice Idris Legbo Kutiji (GCON), Chief Justice of the Federation Supreme Court of Nigeria titled, FRN Vs. Cheif James Onanefe Ibori and others; Petition  Against Honourable Justice M. Awokulehin of The Federal High Court, Asaba. Barr Arinze stated that the Asaba Judge “did not write any letter to any court, whether in Nigeria or the UK”.
The learned counsel said “to put the facts and records straight on the relationship between the London courts trying Udoamaka Okonkwo and others on similar charges in Nigeria and the transmission of documents”; any letter written, or any correspondence shared was between him and the Asaba Court, and between him and a London Lawyer.

To get to the bottom of the matter, Elombah.com asked for and got copies of the correspondences between Barrister Emeka Arinze of Emeka Arinze & co and the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State.

In the first letter (posted here) from Arinze to the Asaba Court written on 23rd Sept 2009, As the solicitor representing the accused persons, he asked of the Asaba Judge; “1. When the briefs of the parties were filed and exchanged, 2. When was the matter adjourned to and for what purpose?

In the courts reply (posted here) on September 30, 2009, the Federal High Court Registrar replied; “Be it confirmed that the prosecution filed their brief on the 17/8/09 while Counsel to the Accused Persons filed theirs on 4/8/09 and both parties have duly exchanged their briefs. On 6th August, 2009, the matter was further adjourned to 26th October, 2009 to enable all the parties in the case (the Prosecution and defence) to adopt their respective briefs.

Recall that in the letter allegedly written to the trial court in London, the Southwark Crown Court was said to be informed that the case at the Federal High Court, Asaba would be disposed off at the next adjourned date on October 26, 2009. But according to an Aid to the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, “if there was no letter to any court, there would be no contents in a non-existent letter”.
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Asaba is not igbo.

I am not a lawyer, but when lawyers begin to write spurious letters, they are up to something

I think they call it creating jurisprudence. This is why some people do not want to have anything

to do with lawyers.

From what I can glean from this news item. it appears that this clever lawyer , was employed ostensibly to

obtain this communication and nothing else. He has earned his commission and his efforts to procure communication

by proxy for the London court has succeeded.


This grand conspiracy is part of the strategy of springing Ibori free, just like the creation of the the Asaba court and

appointment of the judge . It rather embarrassing that the legal association is condoning these issues. The same way they

looked askance when our rights are trampled and democracy was raped in this country, right from the era of

constitutional reforms to the infamous electoral reforms of OBJ and now today


With th all due respect to a few, why we are left with the impression that lawyers keep do not intervene in these circumstances

because of the fat briefs that will follow the controversies. Why , in the name of all that is decent, must we be made to agonise on bad

officiating in our legal institutions with the remote connivance of those who should know better.

look at my list:-

1) Constitutional reform over the years
2)Electoral Reform over the years
3) The mess that is INEC
4)The mess in the election tribunals
5)The Odili saga
6) The Ibori saga

I leave everybody to produce his own list.