•••THREATENS TO INCLUDE PRESIDENT-ELECT IN SUIT
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu, have been dragged to the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja over an unpaid debt of N125 million.
The plaintiff, and the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Candidate, in the just concluded presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala, said he took Adamu to court for falling to pay him his legal fees.
Bwala said the debt was an accumulated money accruing from legal services rendered to the party, which the party leadership has failed to pay.
Bwala said that if his fees were not paid he would proceed to include the President-elect as a defendant in the suit to compel the party to pay him his fees.
According to Bwala, he had made every efforts to secure his payments without success.
Bwala disclosed that he suspected that the refusal by Adamu to pay him his fees, was because he left the APC, and not only joined PDP, but became a spokesman to Atiku Abubakar, where he said he played a critical role in Atiku’s campaign.
Bwala, in the suit No. CV/2009/2023, field at the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja, is asking the court for an order compelling APC and its Chairman, Adamu to pay him the 125m debt.
According to the suit, N25 million was the cost of the suit, and the 10 percent interest on the judgement till the liquidation of the fees
He said the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only), was the debt owed by the defendants to the claimant for the concluded cases.
The court papers disclosed that “the Claimant took steps to file all court processes, appeared in all the cases, both within and outside jurisdiction (Abuja, Osun State, Cross-river State, Kaduna State, Benue State and Ondo State) and prosecuted the cases diligently to their logical conclusion.
“That the Claimant sent progress reports to the Defendants on every occasion any of the matters came up in court.”
According to the papers, the Claimants professional fee for the nine (9) concluded cases is the sum of N135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Million Naira).
“That the Defendants have so far paid the sum of N15, 000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira Only), leaving the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as outstanding.”
The papers shows that the Claimant’s law firm wrote the Defendants, informing them of conclusion of the nine (9) cases, and demanded payment of the sum of N120, 000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as full and final payment of their professional fees.
