Kola Awodein, senior
advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on Wednesday, admitted to giving Adeniyi Ademola, a
judge facing corruption trial, N500,000, but he said it was a gift for the
wedding of the judge’s daughter.
While being cross-examined in the trial of the
judge on Tuesday, Babatunde Adepoju, an agent of the Department of State
Services (DSS), claimed that Awodein gave Ademola N500, 000 at the time he was
representing President Muhammadu Buhari in a “missing certificate” suit before
the judge.
However, the witness added that it was a gift and
not a bribe.
In a statement issued through Femi Adesina,
presidential spokesman, Buhari’s lawyer said he gave Ademola the gift for his
daughter’s wedding as a friend.
He said the gift had nothing to do with Buhari
because it was his personal offering to the judge, whom he had known for 35
years.
-TheCable
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