ALLEGED BRIBING OF JUDGE AN IMAGINATION OF A DROWNING MAN – Ned Nwoko

Former member representing the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Honourable Ned Nwoko, has described as an after thought the allegation by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi that he (Ned) bribed an Abuja Federal High Court judge, Justice Ahmed Abubakar, with the sum of $50,000 to influence judgement against him, after his ( Nwaoboshi’s) alleged failed attempt to circumvent justice with a bribe of N2bn.

Ned Nwoko, in a statement issued by his media team, said the allegation lacked substance and only succeeded in putting Nwaoboshi’s qualification as a lawyer to question.

He wondered why he should contemplate bribing the judge when the evidence of the case was glaring and when he (Nwaoboshi) and his legal team could not prove that he actually won the October 2, 2018 Delta north PDP senatorial primary, even with all the opportunity they had to do so.

The former federal lawmaker said if Nwaoboshi was sure that he won the primary, he wouldn’t have tried to stop the court from invoking Section 167 (d) of the Evidence Act 2011, to allow for the counting of the ballot papers used for the primary, stressing that the Appelant’s exparte motion of January 24, 2019 seeking to set aside the order of the court was a judicial robbery attempt, which the court in its wisdom stood firmly against.

Honourable Ned Nwoko noted that by faulting the judgement of the Federal High Court, Peter Nwaoboshi had constituted himself into a Court of Appeal, which a trained legal practitioner that he claims to be should not do.

The Idumuje- Ugboko born Prince maintained that Nwaoboshi’s fabricated story of money being transferred from the bank account of Linas Company Ltd, a company not owned by Ned Nwoko as alleged, to a Zenith bank account of Mafrogas Ltd and later transferred back to Linas bank account with the FCMB in Asaba, from where it was moved to a Bureau DE Change operator in Abuja who delivered it to the Judge, was simply an imagination of a drowning man and should be discountenanced in its totality.

He said as a highly respected Nigerian and a lawyer of international repute he would not engage in such a grievous illegality, adding that he had no reason to do so because the Nigerian judiciary of today has no place for such.