Wole Olanipekun, counsel for the All Progressive Congress APC, and its governorship candidate in the Bayelsa 2019 election, David Lyon, has said that the application which he filed at the supreme court, seeking the review of the judgement of the Supreme Court was not frivolous.
According to Olanipekun, who was fined N30m by the supreme court for filing the application, his actions were not wrong.
The Supreme Court struck out the suit and ordered the counsels to pay cost to the respondent, Douye Diri, who was declared the winner of the 2019 governor by the Supreme Court on February 13.
Olanipekun defended his action on Sunday during a thanksgiving service held in commemoration of a church auditorium he donated to the St. Peters Anglican Church, Ikere Ekiti.
He said;
“I have not had any regret, I can tell you, in the profession of law that I have practised since 1976 when I was called to the bar, I thank God for what he has made out of me. I see it as a ministry,” he said.
“Forget about what you read, I have done no wrong. Truth will come out.
“I haven’t done any wrong. I would be one of the few lawyers in Nigeria, who would say that I tried as much as possible to practise the profession in the best tradition of the bar, the best tradition of the legal profession.
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“At the end of the day, truth will come out. We thank God for everything. I won’t say more than that now.”
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