Halliburton: Aisha Buhari goes beyond threat, takes Fayose, aides to court

President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has gone beyond threat to finally sue Governor Ayo Fayose and his media aides over allegation of her involvement in the Halliburton scandal.

In a report by Premium Times, Mrs Buhari in an ex-parte motion, filed Wednesday July 20, 2016, prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, to grant her reliefs to issue writ of summons against Mr. Fayose and his media advisers, Idowu Adelusi and Lere Olayinka.

Olukayode Adeniyi, the presiding judge, is reported to have granted all reliefs sought by Mrs. Buhari, including an order of substituted service.

Mary Ekpere, counsel to Mrs. Buhari, prayed the court for the lawsuit to be served on Mr. Fayose and his two aides, despite the fact that Ekiti state is outside the jurisdiction of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

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Recall that Mr. Fayose had in June claimed that Mrs. Buhari was the “Aisha Buhari” mentioned in a U.S. court document, alleged to have been involved in the bribery case involving a convicted former U.S. lawmaker, Williams Jefferson.

Despite Mrs Buhari’s saying she was not the one and threat to sue the governor if he fails to retract his statement, Fayose insisted she was the one and dated her to take him to court.

 Fayose through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), had written Mrs Buhari’s lawyers, that “Our client states and reaffirms categorically that the statement he made as regards the involvement of Mrs Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Buhari, in the Halliburton scandal, is correct and justified in law; having regards to a court judgement convicting one Mr William Jefferson for bribery in the Halliburton case”.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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