Gbajabiamila In Fresh Trouble As Court Summons Him Over Perjury

As the battle for the 9th assembly speakership contest draws closer, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has been summoned to a court in the federal capital territory over alleged perjury.

Naija News recalls that the allegation was raised after several reports show that the 8th Assembly Majority Leader of the House of Representatives might win the speakership battle.

The spokesman of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Ugochinyere, joined by national chairmen of 12 political parties, accused  Gbajabiamila of committing perjury in the CF001 form he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.

CUPP explains further while Gbajabiamila, a lawyer, was convicted by the supreme court of Georgia, US, and sentenced to 36 months disbarment for fraud, he lied to INEC that he had never been convicted for any crime. The lawmaker was said to have duped Barry Hadyatu, one of his clients, by receiving her insurance claims without her authority.

“This is the man President Muhammadu Buhari led APC wants to emerge as the speaker of the house of representatives,” the statement read.

“Is President Buhari now saying that the admission of guilt of involvement in the shameful act of willful dishonesty and acceptance of lesser punishment because he has repaid the money has wiped the record of the evil deed? Is the President Muhammadu Buhari led APC now saying that if all the looters of our treasury admit that they looted that we should forgive them as though they never looted and make them Speakers and Senate Presidents at different levels? Is this the era where we shall now reward crimes just because the criminal admitted and negotiated a lesser punishment? President Buhari led APC has a lot of questions to answer to Nigerians why this man called Gbaja is his choice.”

“We call on all members-elect of the house of representatives to stand up to be counted as their first official duty will be to ensure that a person who the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia has convicted for the offence of willful dishonesty and who lied under oath in his INEC Form CF001 is not elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.”

Although he reportedly repaid the money to his client, Gbajabiamila was said to have later closed down his law office in America and returned to Nigeria.

The lawmaker, who has been going round the country to enlist the support of key politicians, is favoured by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).