Information reaching us indicates that
the lawyer to Max Ozoaka, the plaintiff
in the case challenging the eligibility of
the Presidential Candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Muhammadu
Buhari, in an Abuja court, is the
personal lawyer to President Goodluck
Jonathan.
He is Ade Okeaya-Inneh, SAN, and is the
same man who is appearing for
President Jonathan in the eligibility case
pending in the Court of Appeal against
the president. The judge in this matter,
Justice Adeniyi Ademola, is a personal
friend to Attorney General of the
Federation, Mohammed Adoke, and is
alleged to be "soft" within the law
circles.
It is well known fact that the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, has never lost a
case before him.
Our source in the presidency, who spoke
to our correspondent, insisted that they
will stop at nothing to truncate the
democratic process if the signs of a
possible loss at the polls continues. The
chief architect of this attempt is
President Jonathan, who has embarked
on a series of legal manipulations to stop
General Buhari.
Apart from the legal processes, the
presidency has been sponsoring print
and electronic adverts calling for
election postponement to scuttle the
planned February 14 presidential
elections.
Lately, the ruling party has been
desperately shopping for lawyers of the
Yoruba extraction and favourable judges
to file and sit on the cases brought up
against Gen. Buhari, all in a bid to stop
the humiliating defeat they envisage in
the February 14 Presidential election. A
top Abuja lawyer (name withheld) was
recently approached with millions of
dollars by a representative of the Fuel
Subsidy Cartel to prosecute a case
against the General but declined the
offer.
It is believed that more than the
politicians in the ruling party, cronies of
the president, along with those directly
benefiting from the corruption and
disorganisation in the petroleum
industry and the military, are most
afraid of a Buhari Presidency. There is
said to be palpable fear amongst the
president’s handlers that the game is up,
hence the last minute moves to either
keep the APC candidate off the ballot
papers or postpone the elections to allow
the negative publicity against him to
gain some traction.
So far, the ground swell behind a Buhari
presidency has been unprecedented,
with every online poll indicating a
landslide victory for the General and his
running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Despite negative propaganda against
him, the support for the Buhari-Osinbajo
ticket has suffered no loss. Meanwhile,
the President has been stoned in Katsina,
Bauchi, Adamawa & Taraba states, all
under the control of his party.
