{"id":5278,"date":"2013-01-18T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/pdp-factions-i-ve-no-plans-to-influence-court-of-appeal-obasanjo\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T00:10:00","slug":"pdp-factions-i-ve-no-plans-to-influence-court-of-appeal-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/18\/pdp-factions-i-ve-no-plans-to-influence-court-of-appeal-obasanjo\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP factions: I \u2018ve no plans to influence Court of Appeal \u2014 Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"81\">\n<p>BY DAUD OLATUNJI<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Says allegation a tissue of lies<br \/>ABEOKUTA\u2014FORMER President\u00a0Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, refuted allegation by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, that he was planning to influence the outcome of an Appeal Court case involving the financier of PDP in Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu and the party.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Adebayo Dayo-led State Executive Committee had in a petition to the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A. Bulkachuwa, accused Obasanjo of planning to influence the outcome of an appeal pending before the Lagos Division of the appellate court.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the allegation, Obasanjo through a statement by his Media Assistant, Vitalis Ortese,\u00a0 dismissed the allegation as nothing but a tissue of lies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0 statement \u201cthe attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been drawn to an allegation published on page 12 in the Punch Newspapers of Thursday, 17 January, 2013, and on page 62 of the Nation of the same date, that one \u201cAdebayo Dayo\u201d in a petition dated January 15, 2013 and addressed to the President of the Court of Appeal, alleged that the former president had through his lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola, secured an assurance from the presiding justice of the Lagos Division of the appeal Court, to influence the outcome of an appeal pending before it in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegation is nothing but a tissue of lies,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegation is nothing but a tissue of lies. The former President has nothing to do with the case in question and has neither spoken with Chief Afe Babalola on any such case nor had given him any money to ever give to any judge in respect of the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of lies is propagated by despicable characters like \u201cAdebayo Dayo\u201d and \u201cBuruji Kasamu,\u201d who peddle falsehood in the hope of sustaining baseless cases and allegations for the most regrettable and deplorable reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY DAUD OLATUNJI \u2026Says allegation a tissue of liesABEOKUTA\u2014FORMER President\u00a0Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, refuted allegation by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State, that he was planning to influence the outcome of an Appeal Court case involving the financier of PDP in Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu and the party. Chief Adebayo Dayo-led State Executive Committee had in a petition to the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}