The Guardian (Nigeria)

I’ve notified Tinubu of NJC’S retraction, says Daini

- By Joseph Onyekwere

AN appellant, Dr. Oluwole Adeoye Daini said he has notified President Bola Tinubu of the la wful retraction made by the National Judicial Council ( NJC) regarding acts of conspiracy, fraud and concealmen­t of forgery.

Daini said following the correspond­ence by the NJC dated December 19, 2023 with the reference No . NJC/ F. 3/ FHC. 17/ VI/ 293, the body had agreed to retract itself and irreversib­ly refrain from committing conspiracy, and concealmen­t of forgery against him.

He also stated that the NJC consented to be extricated from any form of complicity in the acts of conspiracy, concealmen­t of forgery and obstructio­n of administra­tion of justice. This, he said, followed the rejoinders dated Januar y 3 and 10, 2024 and the affidavit of facts he deposed to in the Registry of the Supreme Court, and given to t he Chief

Justice of Nigeria ( CJN), who is the chairman of the NJC. According to him, it included the documentar­y and incontrove­rtible evidence of the NJC letter dated November 19, 2020 with the Ref. No. NJC/ F. 3/ FHC. 8/ IV/ 990 submitted to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, in which he was personally copied as well as the President of Nigeria.

His words: “In the January 3, 2024 rejoinder, which was part of affidavit of facts deposed to in the Registry of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on January 10, 2024, Daini informed the CJN/ chairman NJC that the letter by the NJC dated December 19, 2023 with the reference No. NJC/ F. 3/ FHC. 17/ VI/ 293 was aimed at unlawfully and unconstitu­tionally continuing the already exposed concealmen­t of the fraudulent acts of conspiracy and forgery of the December 04, 2009 dated judgment in the suit marked FHC/ ABJ/ M/ 692/ 07.”

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