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SMerchant:
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Tinubu is only principled in criminality.
He sticks to malpractices and never looks back.

chisomkachy:
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.

Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.

Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.

The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.

The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.

Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.

The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.

But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.

During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).

The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.

Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.

Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:

“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.

“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”

https://dailytimesng.com/obasa-efcc-withdraws-suit/

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https://wap.nairaland.com/6167844/lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-efcc#94728150

https://www.nairaland.com/6168612/obasa-court-orders-efcc-freeze#94741534

raddyworld:
Saying truth, did he instigate anarchy?
Didn't Kanu instigate destroying govt properties?
Didn't Kanu instigate killing of the arm forces?
Didn't Kanu still show his intolerance in court with his lawyer?
If you want Biafra no problem it is your right.
But making life miserable for your fellow citizens because of Biafra is a crime.

zoedew:
Divinity acknowledge a murderer who is also a coward filibustering in court to avoid facing justice for his crimes🧐? Not on your life!

Mattswaggz:
Mandela was called more than these yet he prevailed.....you can't stop light from shining okay so keep trying.

zoedew:
You insult the memory of Nelson Mandela! Mandela and your immoral and traitorous coward are not on the same level. Mandela stood his trial. Your person shamelessly kept putting up one argument and insane conduct or the other in court in a bid to avoid standing his trial. The Judge had to have him put out of court to read the judgment in his metre. Your person is stark raving mad! Mandela was not that way! Unlike your person whose sexcapades are out there for all to see, Mandela was respectable throughout his ordeal. Unlike your person Mandela was not an irritable tyrant. Your person was so irritable and out of hand that he shouted down his Lawyer in court! I could go on.

zoedew:
Which principle? To say election is warfare and to wipe out the teaching of history of a whole nation so the nation will have no future except the one you dictate🧐. Alabi Isama knows how you are not the leader you claim to be. He has you properly chronicled in a book. Typical of you to not responding to him considering that you lack shame! In all my life I have never seen an Elder pilloried in the manner Ayo Fayose an equally infamous person did you in recently at his birthday. You are legendary in shamelessness! I should think you live for nothing worth the while! Who is Otunba Fasawe to you? How well have you repaid the good he did to you years back. Is caning a proper way to reward a friend for the good he did you. I once met a very old Nigerian politician who showed me a letter you personally wrote to him inviting him to serve in your government during your first term as a civilian President. He declined. I asked him why and he went to town about you! All he told me about how dangerous and damaging to one's reputation it is working with you has happened including Bola Ige's death! On the home front, do you have a home worth calling one? But for the gatekeeping responsibilities of your children to a father they are not proud of, the world should throw stones at you for your irresponsible ways in fatherhood and parenting had they opened up on who you are. The broad daylight slaying of Linda Obasanjo one of your wives on the street of Onike/Iwaya in Lagos was the first case of street assassination in Nigeria! It remains unsolved till date and you were President for eight years! I have not met one staff of your personally owned businesses who have a nice recollection of you! Little wonder, members of your extended family did not waste time in taking over your estate when it looked like your death by firing squad at the hands of an equally infamous Abacha was certain! You are a shameless elder!!

Richtaiwo:
I agree with Obj. There is no doubt that he remains a man of strong principles, even at his current age. The same can be said of Jagaban. One may disagree with his principles, but he clearly has them and consistently stands by them.

This stands in stark contrast to someone who cannot even remain seated in one political party, despite solemnly declaring that he would never leave.

Memphitz357:
Silly talk!

Tinubu CAN NEVER stand on the international stage and gather clout like Obasanjo!


NEVER!!

Mattswaggz:
Like I said Mandela was called all this (by the people he was standing up to just like you're doing to kanu in this case) and many more.....and yet his light shone.....so keep up it doesn't surprise me but light can't be stopped from shining.

Memphitz357:
Silly talk!

Tinubu CAN NEVER stand on the international stage and gather clout like Obasanjo!


NEVER!!