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Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola disguises on wheelchair in London hotel for secret meeting with Bola Tinubu

Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola has been sighted in London pretending to be a physically-challenged old man, Peoples Gazette learnt today, in what Supreme Court sources said was a clandestine preparation for a meeting with President-elect Bola Tinubu.

Mr Ariwoola’s movement was exposed to The Gazette as Mr Tinubu was arriving in London for what his team claimed was a relaxation trip after a hectic campaign that preceded his declaration as Nigeria’s president-elect last month. But Mr Tinubu kept his trip to London secret until it was exposed on Wednesday afternoon by Sahara Reporters, which said the trip was a medical emergency.

The Gazette learnt that Mr Ariwoola departed Nigeria on March 11 via Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. He was pushed in a wheelchair through the terminals to board a British Airways flight, our sources said.

Upon arrival in London, Mr Ariwoola, 64, was also wheeled into a hotel downtown, where he has remained ever since. But immediately after checking into the hotel, Mr Ariwoola abandoned his wheelchair and started moving around the facility unaided. The Supreme Court head is not known with any physical disabilities.

“He has been moving about in the hotel without any wheelchair,” a source familiar with the CJN’s activities at the London accommodation told The Gazette. “He was standing on his own in the elevator just yesterday.”

The Gazette learnt that Mr Ariwoola repeatedly picked up food ordered via delivery services at a mid-level lobby, including Uber Eats and Deliveroo. It was unclear whether or not he placed the orders by himself or how he paid.

With Mr Tinubu now in Europe, he would be meeting Mr Ariwoola in a secret arrangement to discuss issues unknown to Nigerians, our sources said.

“The CJN deliberately left the country more than a week ahead of Tinubu to avoid any suspicion about why both of them disappeared at once,” a source familiar said. “That is why he travelled secretly and Tinubu also travelled secretly.”

They thought that they could secretly move the president-elect abroad without anybody knowing about it,” a source said. “That’s one of the several mistakes they made on this matter, asides from the belief that they could allow the Chief Justice of Nigeria to move about in a London hotel for several days undetected after going through the trouble of disguising him in a wheelchair.”

The Gazette has temporarily withheld the CJN’s photos and the specific hotel he stayed in to protect a source central to this story.

A Supreme Court source said Mr Ariwoola wanted to meet Mr Tinubu to discuss issues that may arise from the budding legal challenge to the declaration as president-elect, including whether or not he should be worried about the petitions recently filed by opposition parties.

“The CJN would either assure Tinubu of victory in court or tell him that he should be worried about the dimension the petitions may take through the court stages,” the source said under anonymity to avoid facing administrative action for divulging privileged information to reporters. “But we may never know what they actually discussed after their secret meeting.”

“I am reluctant to start thinking about the of their meeting right now,” the source added. “But any fair-minded person will easily admit that both of them meeting in a foreign corner to discuss something that Nigerians will not know about is highly suspicious and should be unwarranted.”

Credit: People’s Gazette.

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AloyEmeka9:
Let me correct you since you are trying to be funny:

Yoruba is one of the most aggressive tribes in Nigeria if not the most:

1. It's only in Yorubaland that they have rental discrimination in Nigeria if not in the whole west Africa.There are many tribalist yoruba landlords in Lagos and Ibadan. Go and ask other Nigerians that are not yoruba if you want to learn.

2. I know you posted this thread because you were trying to make a story out of the Kaduna riots. Let me enlighten you, OPC have done worse every now and then. Go to Ketu, OPC is always fighting hausas and it's still a cold war up till this day.

3. Friendly? How friendly are alaaye people that harass igbos and other Nigerians everyday in Lagos island?

4. friendly and most accepting? Is kidnapping igbo traders every year a part of their warm welcome? How many times have you heard of any militant group in igboland or ijawland fighting with the yoruba community living in their land?. How many times please? Do you know how many times the oba of lagos has stopped igbos warring with OPC?

5. Can you explain to us where and when Yorubas stick their neck out to protect others?

6. Who said Nollywood? I never knew that tribalism and racism can also be shown in selecting movies. Nollywood movies sell better largely because of language barriers. How many yorubas watch igbo language movies subtitled in english?. How many of you watch French movies regularly that are subtitled in english?

7. Yoruba may be more liberal when it comes to religion and marriage and that may be the only one I will agree with but that doesn't make them the friendlist ethnic group in Nigeria. I know that majority of these women writing imaginations from their head here stay abroad and view Nigeria from Nairaland. Read news and don't be too affectionate about something. It's your dire desire to paint the hausa tribe black that made you make a fool out of yourself.

Even the eminent tribalist here, tpia wouldn't make this stupid assumption about the yorubas.

I quite agree with this 2008 thread. Yoruba is the most tribalistic tribe in Nigeria.

I have given up on Nigeria, that country will not see improvement in our lifetime or anytime soon. Thank God I am not living there, thank God I have another nationality. A people is actually as good as the leaders they get.

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Nigerians should know that this is a red flag. How can one candidate bring fake bishops, fake name, fake credentials, fake origin...
Now fake Ebuka?
What in the name of town hall is wrong with these bats?

Why is APC full of lies and deceit? There's so much insincerity in this party called APC.

This is the picture Joe Igbokwe, an APC chieftain posted this morning trying to boast that many famous people and celebrities are joining force to support their candidate.

But thank God we have great online FBI that immediately exposed their lies

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid08738PZoHinYgWNJFoxLN8dam8Fb3nix51hY2kdBgMgp721LbvFQCTANB4kxMtV7ul&id=100001155348708&mibextid=Nif5oz

I can't stop laughing. They think they are wise

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What's going on? So many stories of governorship candidates dying few months to the election. We just heard of the demise of the Abia PDP governorship candidate few days ago and now this.

[color=#990000][/color]Why is it that I can't see it?

Is that not Reno Omokri I am sighting far behind Atiku with his he-goat beard?

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Crazy dictator. Museveni thinks Facebook is Uganda that he can dictate to anyhow he likes? All these African dictators who think they are some sort of mini god should know that the world is advancing and leaving them behind.

For one to appreciate the value of peace, one needs to have experienced war first. Tonto Dike really made you to see the contrast between both sides. There is nothing that can be compared to having peace of mind in marriage.

Tonto practically and constantly verbally abused Churchill as we could wittness in this our online community. She feels because she's a woman that doesn't count as domestic abuse. She harassed him for years. He must have suffered mental distress and I'm sure he's currently trying to heal from the trauma.

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He/she should be kept in men's unit of the jail because he is a 100% man. That's how they kept this other transgender in female prison facility the last time and before they knew it, he/she had already impregnated 2 female inmates. This people are just fooling themselves and they know it. In a thousand years when they'll dig up their remain as they do some of these Egyptian mummies in recent times, and decides to ascertain which gender they were, it will either be male or female.

Temmylee01:
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Joy002:
The time has come

We all have gotten to that point where we were under extreme pressure to end it all, we pushed, fought and resisted that urge, we pressed on and here we are today looking back at those days and saying, hey, we made it. It can also be your story if could resist and push a bit more. May God strengthen you.

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If prayer had been made as instructed this sad occurrence would have been averted

Some months ago I saw the prophecy circulating online, but I never took it seriously till it happened. I wish someone communicated it to him to do what was asked.