An appellant, Dr. Oluwole Adeoye Daini has declared that President Bola Tinubu has disencumbered several government establishments from any criminality in the appeals he won.
This, he said, was done through the lawful and constitutional admissions of the depositions in the two affidavits of facts he deposed to in the Supreme Court on April 2, 2024.
Daini was the appellant in the concluded appeals No CA/A/702/2013 and CA/ABJ/PRE/ROA/CV/281M1/2023.
His words: “As part of the consummation of the decriminalisation of the Federal Government, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission in appeal No CA/A/702/2013 and for the extrication of the Court of Appeal and the Federal High Court and their alter egos from any form of complicity in the criminal acts of conspiracy and forgery of the 04/12/2009-dated judgment in suit No FHC/ABJ/M/692/07, the president freed them from culpability.”
Similarly, he stated that the Chief Justice of Nigeria/Chairman National Judicial Council, the FCT High Court, the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, the trial Judge, the staff of the Registry of the FCT High Court, the Nigerian Bar Association and the Nigeria Police are all extricated from any form of complicity in and/or conspiracy and fabrication of false evidence.
The false evidence, Daini explained, was presented in a judicial proceeding where motion No 743/19 was forged in an application dated March 8, 2019.
He stated that the forged document was used to unlawfully arrest the cause-listed judgment of the FCT High Court on March 13, 2019 in the suit marked CV/1432/2018.
Daini said the President has disencumbered the appointees of the government from such criminalities through the lawful admissions of his depositions in the two affidavits of facts, which he deposed to in the Supreme Court on April 2, 2024.
He said: “The presidential act of removing the encumbrances from the government establishments and appointees was after the concluded appeal No CA/A/702/2013 and the appeal motion marked CA/ABJ/PRE/ROA/CV/281M1/2023 respectively in the Court of Appeal Abuja Division.
“The government establishments from which the encumbrances were removed by the President included the law enforcement agencies and allied establishments such as the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Army, Nigeria Navy, Nigeria Air Force, NSCDC, NDLEA, Nigeria Immigration Services, Nigeria Customs Services, Nigeria Correctional Services, the National Judicial Council, the Court of Appeal and the Federal High Court.”
According to him, President Tinubu disencumbered those government establishments and their appointees from culpability, as contained in the rejoinders dated March 11, 2024 and April 2, 2024, which he wrote to the President.
Also, they are absolved from guilt following unchallenged Supreme Court affidavits of facts, which he legally deposed to in compliance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, various West African, African and United Nations Charters, Treaties and Conventions to which Nigeria is a signatory.
He, therefore, called on the President to salvage the real assets of the Federal Government that had been forfeited by the government by paying for same in lieu of their public disposal following the concluded appeal No CA/A/702/2013 and the concluded appeal motion marked CA/ABJ/PRE/ROA/CV/281M1/2023.
This, he said, followed the valuation of the forfeited assets.
He explained further that the President has to prevent the conduct of any form of government businesses or government-endorsed activities in any of the forfeited assets, as that would amount to the government embarking on gross illegality, which violates the rule of law and subvert the Nigerian democracy.
