Video: CJN Ariwoola Seen In Abuja Amidst Reports Of Secret Meeting With Tinubu In London

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Kayode Ariwoola has been seen in a video on Friday leaving the Supreme Court for the Ansar-Ud-Deen Central Mosque, Abuja.

The video of the CJN which was seen by our reporter surfaced at a time allegations have been trending of a secret meeting between Ariwoola and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in London.

CJN Ariwoola was however seen leaving the court to observe his prayers at the mosque.

See the video.

Tinubu Denies Meeting

Earlier, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu on Thursday distanced himself from the report claiming that he met with the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola in London.

Reports had it that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate met with Ariwoola to seek the favour of the judiciary as his opponents seek to overturn his victory in the February 25th, 2023 election.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the APC presidential campaign council (PCC), Bayo Onanuga in a statement released on Thursday said Tinubu is currently in France.

The statement reads, “Our attention has been drawn to the grossly fake, misleading and malicious story about the Chief Justice of Nigeria Olukayode Ariwoola disguising to meet President-elect Bola Tinubu in London.

“The story was a pure concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of our recent election, which was won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine meeting between the President-elect and the respected Chief Justice of our country, anywhere. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and authenticity.

“To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheelchair to board a plane.

“The President-elect left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with so wide disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?

“We can confirm that the President-elect, who left Nigeria Tuesday has not been in London. He is right now in France to have a deserved rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022. He will go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.”