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Mary-Odili Speaks On Influencing Tribunal Judgement To Favour Tinubu

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Mary-Odili has denied influencing Presidential Election Tribunal Judges to favour Tinubu.

 

CityNews Nigeria reports that a former Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Peter-Odili, has denied influencing the Presidential Election Tribunal to favour President Bola Tinubu.

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She denied negotiating with the judges handling the presidential election petition to favour Tinubu.

 

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Mary-Odili was reacting to a publication accusing her of “negotiating a pathway for President Bola Tinubu” and that “she meets regularly with the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court justices in that regard.

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Condemning the allegation, the retired judge described the allegation as malicious and falsehood.

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In the statement by her Media Assistant, Felix Enebeli, the retired justice insisted that the allegations were aimed at smearing her integrity and solid reputation.

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The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to a publication circulating in the social media against the person of the retired Justice Mary Ukaego Peter-Odili, wherein the author, one Jackson Ude, falsely and maliciously alleged inter alia, that the revered jurist is ‘currently negotiating a pathway for Bola Tinubu’ and that ‘she meets regularly with Appeal and Supreme courts’ in that regard.

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“We deny every allegation contained in the publication and state that the publication is false, malicious, mischievous and a deliberate attempt at smearing the integrity and solid reputation of her lordship.

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“We say nothing of the fact that the publication has the potential of inciting the public against her lordship on an issue of grave national importance.”

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