Atiku's Spokesman Takes APC Chairman, APC, To Court Over Unpaid Legal Fees Of N125Million Debt
The Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Candidate, in the February presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala, has sued the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu, to the High Court over unpaid debt of N125 million, being a legal charges for taking brief for the party.
The Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Candidate, in the February presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala, has sued the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu, to the High Court over unpaid debt of N125 million, being a legal charges for taking brief for the party.
Daniel Bwala said he is prosecuting Adamu for faliure to pay him his legal fees, adding that the debt was an accumulated money accruing from legal services rendered to the party, which the party leadership has failed to pay.
According to Bwala, if his fees were not paid he would proceed to include the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a defendant in the suit to compel the party to pay him his fees.
Bwala alleged that he had sought every diplomatic efforts to secure his payments but all ended on failed promises, disclosing that he suspected that the refusal by Adamu to pay him his fees, was because he left the APC.
He claimed that not only he left the party but as well joined PDP, and became a spokesman to Atiku Abubakar, where he said he played a major role in Atiku's campaign.
Bwala, in the suit No. CV/2009/2023, field at the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja, Crystal Chambers are 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 for 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.
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