Gratification: Justice Ademola, wife, hire separate topflight lawyers to battle FG, get N100m bail
Drama as FG arraigns Justice Ademola, wife
Two months after he was arrested, in a blitzkrieg manner, by operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), the Federal Government on Tuesday arraigned suspended Federal High Court judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola and his wife Olabowale, the Head of Service of Lagos State on a joint 11-count charge bordering on gratification, illegal possession of firearms and live ammunitions.

But the couple, Mr and Mrs Ademola pleaded not guilty to the charge.

They had hired separate topflight lawyers to handle the case for them

Prominent member of the inner bar, Dr Oyinyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) is leading a battery of lawyers representing Justice Ademola in court while a Lagos-based silk, Chief Robert Clarke (SAN) is leading another team of lawyers representing Mrs Olabowale Ademola in the case.

Justice Jude Okeke of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory presided over the case on Tuesday.

Even though the couple hired some of the best lawyers in the country, they were not too comfortable in the court room, before, during and after their arraignment, on Tuesday as they were either covering their faces with their phones and hands or burying same in their palms.

Drama ensued Thursday while they were waiting in court for their arraignment, photojournalists who had bombarded the court premises were targeting the judge for his shot and that of the wife.

Although they were protected by minions of the law and the court staff, the photojournalists would not allow them be.
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