Exposed: How Sheriff, Jimoh Ibrahim Bribed Judiciary Staff to Blackmail Judge

Presidency, top lawyers Fingered
Reports have emerged how Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Jimoh Ibrahim bribed some staff of the Appeal Court to blackmail the panel of three Justices constituted by the president of the court of appeal to hear the PDP matter as it relates to the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State.
It would be recalled that Justice Jumai Sankey and her other colleagues recused themselves from the matter a day after one Biyi Poroye working in concert with the Modu Sheriff group of the PDP wrote a damning but false petition against the three justices particularly Sankey. Although Poroye bolted from the court when the issue was raised as he could not defend any of the allegations in the petition to which he also sworn an affidavit, all counsels involved in the matter even including his own lawyers denied any knowledge of such application and also all went ahead to condemn it in very strong terms.
However, investigations has shown that not only did Poroye work assiduously with Sheriff and Jimoh in writing the petition, his lawyers were also very much aware of it, and, in fact, drafted it for him, only to come to court to feign ignorance of its existence as part of the script.
Our reliable source who is threatening to spill the bean after Sheriff and Jimoh seem to have reneged on their promises of financial gratification, said he got involved after meeting Sheriff and Jimoh at a secret location in Abuja where some other staff of the court of appeal from different divisions were ferried to and were already waiting for him. Although he claimed to be reluctant in being a part of the ‘deal’ at first, but that Sheriff showed him and his colleagues phone calls and text messages earlier exchanged with two powerful members of the presidency as a way of confirming to him that the presidency was also in support of the move.
With a promise of N2.5m for each of them for their cooperation, their role was to furnish Sheriff and Jimoh records of the justices who make up the panel so that could form the basis for the petition they intended to write against them
He further said that since nothing real or concrete could be found against the justices, they suggested to them (Sheriff and Jimoh) to rely on the fact that Sankey had once been so sick for five years that she spent a lot of money treating herself to the extent that she is now so poor that she lives an austere life.
This information now formed the fulcrum of Poroye’s 7-page petition against her and the other members of the panel, claiming that she (Sankey) must have been compromised following her need for money.
Having achieved their aim of forcing the justices to recuse themselves from the matter following the petition, Sheriff and Jimoh were no longer forthcoming to fulfill their own part of the bargain as they no longer pick the calls of their agents and informants, hence, the threat to expose the whole deal to the public.
Recall that Justice Sankey while reacting to the petition before recusing her panel, said in an emotion-laden voice that the petition was most wicked and evil especially as it surrounded an issue as personal as an ailment which no one is above.
It is believed that Sheriff and Jimoh Ibrahim are frantically making efforts to frustrate the matter before the appeal court by applying delay tactics, blackmail and intimidation of justices with the help of some powerful presidency forces just to ensure that the case is not heard before the November 26 election date for Ondo State.
When contacted on this development, a source in the Eyitayo Jegede camp expressed overwhelming confidence in the judiciary to do justice in the matter expeditiously. He regretted that Sheriff and Jimoh could go to any extent even if it meant destroying the judiciary just to achieve their own personal gains and score cheap political points. “We are aware of their wicked antics which they are notorious for, but our confidence lies in the fact that this same judiciary has shown exceptional courage in even more trying situations and will remain resolute in giving us justice in this matter. We have total confidence in them”, he concluded.

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