StOla:
Reno is grasping at straws.

The lawyer has already disclosed his close friendship to the Judge, and has stated he gave a wedding gift to the Judge who happened to be the father of the bride.

N500K sounds about right as a gift for the calibre of people involved in the giving and the receiving.

How this is related to Buhari is what I am yet to understand with the apologists of corruption fighting tooth and nail for survival.

Nothing will stand in the way of the fight to rid Nigeria of corruption.

Why exactly is the judge and the SAN on trial? The DSS claimed the lawyer gave gifts to his wife and children while adjudicating in cases where the lawyer was in court. So how exactly is this case different

This man gat no chill! See finishing. Choi!

santino09:
This man gat no chill! See finishing. Choi!

II really felt for bubu.BTW how come the mods are yet to move this explosive thread to the Fb.I smell a conspiracy.

Lalasticlala

genearts:


Don't be ignorant SANs collect as much as N15 million per case. 500k na change. That's some peoples offering in winners chapel

N15 million per case. OK. And Buhari had up 70 SANs that represented him in that case. That means he spent as much as a billion naira on dat case instead of just presenting the certificate?

There's no difference between Buhari and any other Nigerian politician. The only thing is some people are good keeping low profile.

The first president of Nigeria without certificate is the father of corruption.

OKDnigeria:

A wedding gift of 500K? The lawyer must be earning a million for every appearance in court to able to afford dat. And not to the celebrant himself but his father..

And Buhari chose a lawyer who is a 'close friend' to a judge who is presiding over his case to represent him.
Too much coincidences

Are you telling me parents don't give their fellow parents who are friends or family such amount when celebrating their birthdays or their children's wedding?

How much do you think it cost to rent a hall for a social engagement for people in that social class? A hall on the mainland of Lagos ooo, not even on the Island or highbrow areas of Abuja?

We are not talking about a local government gate man whose daughter is getting married and whose friends are also languishing in poverty.

If the lawyer who also happens to be Buhari's lawyer at that time, had given the judge N20m or N50m, then we would all have no doubt it was a bribe given under the excuse of a convenient wedding gift. But not a paltry N500k gift. Is that suppose to be money for Suya or for the judge to buy a plot of land at Ifo?

It seems you don't even know how much lawyers charge politicians in this democratic era of electoral disputes and corruption suits. Ask the likes of Mike Ozekhome how much he charges for retainership, talkless of charges for the actual briefs. Then imagine how much most of the notable tier1 lawyers charge. You think every lawyer is a charge and bail lawyer that's why you think N500k is big money for a wedding gift to a parent.

StOla:


Are you telling me parents don't give their fellow parents who are friends or family such amount when celebrating their birthdays or their children's wedding?

How much do you think it cost to rent a hall for a social engagement for people in that social class? A hall on the mainland of Lagos ooo, not even on the Island or highbrow areas of Abuja?

We are not talking about a local government gate man whose daughter is getting married and whose friends are also languishing in poverty.

If the lawyer who also happens to be Buhari's lawyer at that time, had given the judge N20m or N50m, then we would all have no doubt it was a bribe given under the excuse of a convenient wedding gift. But not a paltry N500k gift. Is that suppose to be money for Suya or for the judge to buy a plot of land at Ifo?

It seems you don't even know how much lawyers charge politicians in this democratic era of electoral disputes and corruption suits. Ask the likes of Mike Ozekhome how much he charges for retainership, talkless of charges for the actual briefs. Then imagine how much most of the notable tier1 lawyers charge. You think every lawyer is a charge and bail lawyer that's why you think N500k is big money for a wedding gift to a parent.

Then why was Ozekhome's bank acct frozen for having #75 million in the acct. The money is now being suspected to be a proceed of corruption. Is it because it was paid by Fayose?

OKDnigeria:


Then why was Ozekhome's bank acct frozen for having #75 million in the acct. The money is now being suspected to be a proceed of corruption. Is it because it was paid by Fayose?

Same issue of convenience or coincidence of the event with a case or client at the same time.

But can Ozekhome have that much in his bank account with the calibre of high profile briefs he now handles after he jettisoned social activism? The answer is a resounding yes.

The paper trail of the frozen funds will determine if he will regain it or not. If it is determined that whoever paid the money got it as a proceed of corruption, then despite having earned it legally for his services, the money must be returned to the public purse while the client looks for his own private money to pay his private lawyer.

Some lawyers just help review contracts etc and make tens of millions. Afe Babalola once made around N500m just advising PDP briefly as a legal consultant during OBJ's reign. It caused an uproar then, but the legal luminary cared less about lay man opinion on what he considered was his duly agreed fees.

Some go to supreme court to argue electoral cases and make enough money to have their own mansion in Lekki.

Many top law firms make a revenue of over N1b annually. How they manage the costs that brought in the income, determines how much profit they make eventually.

Note however, the senior partners in these law firms are the ones enjoying most of the profits with first class air tickets and holiday getaways in Europe for a large family, while the junior lawyers who do all the research and prepare the briefs only for a so called legal luminary to go shine in the glory of a court victory, earn a pittance as salary till they can move up drastically in the firm or have their own firm and briefs.


If N500k is what it takes for a high profile case of a presidential politician to be adjudicated favourably at a federal high court, then I reckon magistrates would as well be taking bribes of recharge cards to give justice to its buyer.

adadike281:
Kai! see finishing! wey Dss? ride on Reno, at least DSS can't arrest u. The voice of the opposition is being stifled in Nigeria, by the way, that ring wey metallisc give me, na bribe abi na gift?

at all at all... none of the above o! the ring na lifetime contract o!


na DSS go do ushers for us last last!

StOla:


Are you telling me parents don't give their fellow parents who are friends or family such amount when celebrating their birthdays or their children's wedding?

How much do you think it cost to rent a hall for a social engagement for people in that social class? A hall on the mainland of Lagos ooo, not even on the Island or highbrow areas of Abuja?

We are not talking about a local government gate man whose daughter is getting married and whose friends are also languishing in poverty.

If the lawyer who also happens to be Buhari's lawyer at that time, had given the judge N20m or N50m, then we would all have no doubt it was a bribe given under the excuse of a convenient wedding gift. But not a paltry N500k gift. Is that suppose to be money for Suya or for the judge to buy a plot of land at Ifo?

It seems you don't even know how much lawyers charge politicians in this democratic era of electoral disputes and corruption suits. Ask the likes of Mike Ozekhome how much he charges for retainership, talkless of charges for the actual briefs. Then imagine how much most of the notable tier1 lawyers charge. You think every lawyer is a charge and bail lawyer that's why you think N500k is big money for a wedding gift to a parent.

Stop talking nonsense 500kk is not a small money in today's naija. In fact someone committed suicide because he lost 300k wedding money to mmm.BTW bribe money is bribe money whether it is N1k or N20m

OKDnigeria:


Then why was Ozekhome's bank acct frozen for having #75 million in the acct. The money is now being suspected to be a proceed of corruption. Is it because it was paid by Fayose?

Don't mind the hypocrite.The judge in question is on trial for receiving gifts from another lawyer which the EFCC tagged bribe money. But the one given by buhari's lawyer is now been called gift

Gullibility is a disease......................

Chai Mr Reno, you are very wicked oo...

Chuksonyeike:

Stop talking nonsense 500kk is not a small money in today's naija. In fact someone committed suicide because he lost 300k wedding money to mmm.BTW bribe money is bribe money whether it is N1k or N20m

That someone is a poor man.

Many have millions in that same MMM and have moved on to other economic pursuits without thinking of taking their lives over the loss.

N500k is an appropriate gift from a rich lawyer to a highly placed judge who is a close friend and who happened to be father of the bride.

Leave Buhari out of your desperation to perpetuate corruption.

Adminisher:
Reno the LIAR. If Buhari wanted to bribe a judge it would be just N500k and it would be through his lawyer and it would've at a wedding and DSS would announce it ABI?

The brain power of young PDP supporters has eroded over the years . It would if a man like Goodluck Jonathan is your hero . Either because of lack of exposure, low intelligence, easy living, lack of aspiration ..A lot of people don't have critical faculties anymore

You have no shame.
Smarter Zombies are keeping quiet.
But you, you must be a special breed.

StOla:
Reno is grasping at straws.

The lawyer has already disclosed his close friendship to the Judge, and has stated he gave a wedding gift to the Judge who happened to be the father of the bride.

N500K sounds about right as a gift for the calibre of people involved in the giving and the receiving.

How this is related to Buhari is what I am yet to understand with the apologists of corruption fighting tooth and nail for survival.

Nothing will stand in the way of the fight to rid Nigeria of corruption.

It is not conceivable that a learned, experienced SAN would be oblivious to the glaring ethical implications of GIFTING a judge presiding over an important case of which is he, the SAN, is the defending counsel.

Even the stupidest, the most ignorant layperson would understand that a Senior Advocate, one who is assumed to know and be the champion of legal ethics, should not under any circumstances, have outside courtroom contacts, talkless of giving a GIFT, even if a Penny, to a judge presiding over a case, a very politically important case of great national significance, of which the Senior lawyer is the defending lawyer.

No layperson could make such a thoughtless, monumental error, talkless of a legal luminary representing a presidential candidate, unless the senior lawyer knew exactly the nature and envisaged reward for the GIFT giving .

eagleeye2:

It seems you are well versed in the act of bribery and giving GIFTS

He is the GIFT ADMINISTRATOR of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

You are biased recluse. Lack sense of judgment.

Hhhhh

StOla:


Are you telling me parents don't give their fellow parents who are friends or family such amount when celebrating their birthdays or their children's wedding?

How much do you think it cost to rent a hall for a social engagement for people in that social class? A hall on the mainland of Lagos ooo, not even on the Island or highbrow areas of Abuja?

We are not talking about a local government gate man whose daughter is getting married and whose friends are also languishing in poverty.

If the lawyer who also happens to be Buhari's lawyer at that time, had given the judge N20m or N50m, then we would all have no doubt it was a bribe given under the excuse of a convenient wedding gift. But not a paltry N500k gift. Is that suppose to be money for Suya or for the judge to buy a plot of land at Ifo?

It seems you don't even know how much lawyers charge politicians in this democratic era of electoral disputes and corruption suits. Ask the likes of Mike Ozekhome how much he charges for retainership, talkless of charges for the actual briefs. Then imagine how much most of the notable tier1 lawyers charge. You think every lawyer is a charge and bail lawyer that's why you think N500k is big money for a wedding gift to a parent.

Baba, leave that guy! Do you expect him to be smarter than he's shown? He can't give what he doesn't have; his critical thinking is zero! Once he thinks you can bribe a Nigerian judge with ordinary #500k for a case of that magnitude, then there's no point.

Bleats of a Pained "thing"

Dude still forcing himself to be relevant in the political scene when he doesn't even count.

Nigeria my country.

So let us get something straight. The SAN in question is only PMBs lawyer and no one else's? Is that even possible?

Let us assume it was a bribe, the bribe couldn't be from any of the SAN's clients? It had to be from PMB, now, because Justice Ademola is in trouble?

Is this not a cheap lie and blackmail? The same kind Ngwuta tried to pull when he claimed Amaechi tried to bribe him too, and after he refused, they sent DSS and EFCC at him?

So PMB wants to bribe a sitting judge in a case of such high magnitude and popularity, then he uses 500k while the Judge himself doesn't alert constituted authority and decides to conveniently do that through a witness only when he is charged for financial crime in another unrelated issue?

500k is now sufficient enough to buy cases in Nigeria when GEJs people would have paid the judge well over ten times that number so the case could favor them. Yet Justice Ademola collected the 500k?

I think this issue is as asinine as asinine can be.

Buhari is a hypocrit

Contact us for all your roofing jobs and roof maintenance etc

famosh:

Baba, leave that guy! Do you expect him to be smarter than he's shown? He can't give what he doesn't have; his critical thinking is zero! Once he thinks you can bribe a Nigerian judge with ordinary #500k for a case of that magnitude, then there's no point.

So N500K is now ordinary?

Which Nigeria billionaire will not jail you for stealing N500K from their company?

I really wonder how we think in this country.

I think Lawal Daura and Malami the Justice minister should be sacked. These guys have brought nothing but ridicule to the President. During the course of the investigation into Ademola's case, the DSS admitted discovering that Buhari's lawyer was close to Ademola and even gave him a N500,000 gift for his daughters wedding (which is verifiable and correct), a gift that wasn't in any way connected to Buhari or his case, the prosecution should have dropped that line of argument immediately.
Ademola's defence brought that matter up because the entire case is predicated on the fact that Agi, another close friend of Ademola paid Ademola for judicial favours which Ademola is claiming were gifts from a friend. Instead of pursuing that argument further, they should have dropped it promptly and probably tried to get Ademola on the weapons possession charge.
This is a lesson to everyone, especially lawyers. We must learn to clearly distinguish our professional lives from our personal lives. While it is true that Awodehin and Ademola are childhood friends and the money was indeed a donation from the lawyer for Ademola's daughters wedding, it was very unprofessional for the lawyer to make that donation at the same time he had a case before the judge. After all that was one of the reasons the NJC sited for removing the chief judge of Enugu who accepted donations from Prince Arthur Eze during a book launch while he had a case pending before his court.

TheFreeOne:
Gift to a judge handling your case is not corruption
- New gospel according to saint Buboo

On who's instruction did the lawyer give the gift

Who blew this whistle?

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duni04:
I think Lawal Daura and Malami the Justice minister should be sacked. These guys have brought nothing but ridicule to the President. During the course of the investigation into Ademola's case, the DSS admitted discovering that Buhari's lawyer was close to Ademola and even gave him a N500,000 gift for his daughters wedding (which is verifiable and correct), a gift that wasn't in any way connected to Buhari or his case, the prosecution should have dropped that line of argument immediately.
Ademola's defence brought that matter up because the entire case is predicated on the fact that Agi, another close friend of Ademola paid Ademola for judicial favours which Ademola is claiming were gifts from a friend. Instead of pursuing that argument further, they should have dropped it promptly and probably tried to get Ademola on the weapons possession charge.
This is a lesson to everyone, especially lawyers. We must learn to clearly distinguish our professional lives from our personal lives. While it is true that Awodehin and Ademola are childhood friends and the money was indeed a donation from the lawyer for Ademola's daughters wedding, it was very unprofessional for the lawyer to make that donation at the same time he had a case before the judge. After all that was one of the reasons the NJC sited for removing the chief judge of Enugu who accepted donations from Sir Emeka offor during a book launch while he had a case pending before his court.

That is the crocs of the matter.

Most of the allegations against these Judges are based in gift they received from Politicians and thier Lawyers, which is unethical.