PHOTO: President Buhari’s lawyer, admits giving a N500,000 to Justice Ademola, but was a ‘gift’

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The corruption case against Justice Ademola where a witness claimed President Buhari’s lawyer gave the Justice N500,000 bribe to falsify his secondary school leaving certificate, at the time of their Presidential campaign, has been refuted by the lawyer himself, saying the money was not a bribe, but a ‘gift’ to a friend he has known for over 35years...

Though the lawyer, Awodein said the ‘gift’ has nothing to do with the President, but according to The Cable, the Lawyer said:
“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,” he said.
“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 practiced 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 is 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 recognises 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 longstanding 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 am and 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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