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SANs Judges Bribery Scandal: Why I Credited An Indicted Judge With N500k - Muiz Banire Reveals

SANs Judges Bribery Scandal: Why I Credited An Indicted Judge With N500k - Muiz Banire Reveals

Muiz Banire
Mr. Muiz Banire, the Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congres, APC has cleared the air on the purported N500,000 he allegedly sent to James Agbadu-Fishim of the Industrial Court, stating that the money he sent was a mere fulfillment of an assistance requested from the judge

News Punch has earlier culled a report from Sahara reporters where Banire was accused of crediting the indicted judge with N500,000.


According to a statement credited to the APC Legal Adviser, Banire, he explained that he had never met the judge in question for the last 17 years.

"Thank you for clarification sought. I have no official relationship with the said judge", Banire said in the statement

"I have never appeared before him in any matter and in fact, in my entire professional career. I have only recently, about month ago, appeared at the National Industrial Court for the first time before a different judge. I had never done a case in that court until recently."

"The particular judge in question is an old friend in the 90's who only called me up some years back to seek financial assistance due to his mother's death. Beyond that, I have not seen him in the last almost seventeen years."

"Up till this moment, I am yet to be invited on the issue by EFCC. Thank you" Banire concluded
Muiz Banire
Mr. Muiz Banire, the Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congres, APC has cleared the air on the purported N500,000 he allegedly sent to James Agbadu-Fishim of the Industrial Court, stating that the money he sent was a mere fulfillment of an assistance requested from the judge

News Punch has earlier culled a report from Sahara reporters where Banire was accused of crediting the indicted judge with N500,000.


According to a statement credited to the APC Legal Adviser, Banire, he explained that he had never met the judge in question for the last 17 years.

"Thank you for clarification sought. I have no official relationship with the said judge", Banire said in the statement

"I have never appeared before him in any matter and in fact, in my entire professional career. I have only recently, about month ago, appeared at the National Industrial Court for the first time before a different judge. I had never done a case in that court until recently."

"The particular judge in question is an old friend in the 90's who only called me up some years back to seek financial assistance due to his mother's death. Beyond that, I have not seen him in the last almost seventeen years."

"Up till this moment, I am yet to be invited on the issue by EFCC. Thank you" Banire concluded

No Foreign Trip of VP Osinbajo Cancelled Because of Saraki - Presidency

No Foreign Trip of VP Osinbajo Cancelled Because of Saraki - Presidency

Saraki and VP Osinbajo
Following an online news medium, Sahara Reporters' report that Vice President prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s planned trip was cancelled when it was discovered that President Muhammadu Buhari would also be out of the country at the time, the Presidency on Sunday denied the cancellation of the trip to India for fear that the embattled President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, may become acting President.

Sahara Reporters' report had insinuated that the Vice-President’s trip was called off in order to ensure that Saraki, who is the third in hierarchy in the country, did not emerge acting President in the absence of Buhari and Osinbajo.

But a source  in the Presidency according to Punch Newspaper said, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent that it was an unwritten rule that the President and Vice President could not be outside the country at the same time.

The source said it was wrong to think that cancelling Osinbajo’s trip had anything to do with Saraki, adding that the unwritten rule preceded the present administration.

Besides, he said if he had embarked on the trip, the Vice-President would have returned to Nigeria latest by Wednesday, stating that Buhari, who is travelling to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is scheduled to return on Tuesday.

“If the President is travelling on Monday and will return on Tuesday, how many hours are you expecting Saraki to begin to wield the powers of a President?” he said.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, told journalists that there was no truth in the report that the Indian trip was cancelled.

Akande said, “Nigeria has been invited to the Indian/African Summit and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment will be leading a delegation to the event.

“There is nothing like cancellation. Remember that the visit of the Vice-President to any country is not treated in secrecy.

“Whenever the Vice-President is to travel out of the country, we inform Nigerians. So, this story in question is a bunch of speculation. There is no cancellation.”
Saraki and VP Osinbajo
Following an online news medium, Sahara Reporters' report that Vice President prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s planned trip was cancelled when it was discovered that President Muhammadu Buhari would also be out of the country at the time, the Presidency on Sunday denied the cancellation of the trip to India for fear that the embattled President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, may become acting President.

Sahara Reporters' report had insinuated that the Vice-President’s trip was called off in order to ensure that Saraki, who is the third in hierarchy in the country, did not emerge acting President in the absence of Buhari and Osinbajo.

But a source  in the Presidency according to Punch Newspaper said, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent that it was an unwritten rule that the President and Vice President could not be outside the country at the same time.

The source said it was wrong to think that cancelling Osinbajo’s trip had anything to do with Saraki, adding that the unwritten rule preceded the present administration.

Besides, he said if he had embarked on the trip, the Vice-President would have returned to Nigeria latest by Wednesday, stating that Buhari, who is travelling to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, is scheduled to return on Tuesday.

“If the President is travelling on Monday and will return on Tuesday, how many hours are you expecting Saraki to begin to wield the powers of a President?” he said.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, told journalists that there was no truth in the report that the Indian trip was cancelled.

Akande said, “Nigeria has been invited to the Indian/African Summit and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment will be leading a delegation to the event.

“There is nothing like cancellation. Remember that the visit of the Vice-President to any country is not treated in secrecy.

“Whenever the Vice-President is to travel out of the country, we inform Nigerians. So, this story in question is a bunch of speculation. There is no cancellation.”

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