Two days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo
accused President Goodluck Jonathan of condoning
corruption, a panel of judges at the Supreme Court of
Nigeria today quashed the conviction handed Bode
George a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain earlier
jailed for corruption by a Lagos High Court. The court discharged and acquitted Mr. George
claiming that prosecutors at the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had no evidence of
Mr. George's intention to commit fraud at the Nigeria
Port Authority (NPA) where as chairman of the NPA
board he was caught presiding over a contract bazaar the bled the nation of Nigeria. A panel of judges headed by a controversial judge,
John Afolabi Fabiyi JSC, ruled that the charges of
"contract splitting" upon which Mr. George was
convicted is unknown to law. The pattern of today's quashing of George's conviction
was similar to that of a Lagos Court of Appeal ruling
which similarly quashed a death sentence conviction
of Major Hamza Al Mustapha's for the murder of
Alhaja Kudirat Abiola in 1996. In Lagos, a panel of
Court of Appeal cleared former Chief Security Officer of late maximum dictator, Sanni Abacha Mustapha of
murder charges under controversial circumstances.
Al Mustapha later wrote a letter thanking President
Jonathan for arranging his judicial pardon. Al Mustapha case was handled by the same lawyer,
former president of the Nigeria Bar Association ,
Joseph B Daudu was Al Mustapha's lawyer in the
Lagos case. Mr. Daudu, a senior advocate of Nigeria,
also played a lead role in securing Mr. George's
freedom today. Since leaving prison a few years ago, Mr. George had
been closely linked to President Jonathan, even
sometimes openly bragging that his conviction will be
upturned.

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Good development. He who doesn't believe in forgiveness of sin should be the person to cast the very first stone. The judiciary has done well. Bode George your sin are forgiven, go and sin no more.

They shld have just written ''GEJ orders Supreme court to acquit Bode george''
Nonesense people