Ruling on the suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees
of Empowerment for Unemployed Youth
Initiative (EUYI) who alleged that Omo-Agege was sentenced to jail and
suspended from law practice for two years for felony involving moral turpitude,
forgery of cheques amounting to $890 with which he intended to defraud the Bank
of America, Ahined Mehone and Elpert Defrietas in violation of California Penal
Code Section 470, Justice Ahmed Mohammed said it was an abuse of court process
and meant “to annoy, embarrass and irritate the first defendant
(Omo-Agege)".
He held that the issues raised in the lawsuit which involves
allegation of forgery, has been resolved in a judgement delivered by an Abuja
high court on January 29, 2020. Justice
Mohammed said “it is clear that the first defendant was not convicted as alleged.”
The federal high court judge subsequently awarded a cost of
N300,000 in favour of each of the four defendants which include Omo-Agege, the
Clerk of the Senate, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent
and National Electoral Commission (INEC). The money is to be jointly paid by
the plaintiff and their lawyers.
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