Keyamo disagrees with Bwala, says, “I sued Lagos Assembly, not Tinubu”

The spokesperson for the Tinubu Presidential campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 elections, Festus Keyamo, SAN, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, on Tuesday disagreed with Daniel Bwala, spokesperson of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation over claim that Keyamo sued the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over certificate forgery. Keyamo in a statement on Tuesday, declared: “I never sued Tinubu. “No. I sued the House of Assembly seeking an interpretation of the law.”

Bwala, in an interaction on Channels Television on Tuesday said that he has ‘receipts’ that Keyamo sued Tinubu for alleged certificate forgery during his first term as Lagos governor.

Bwala had quoted a law report, Keyamo V. House Of Assembly, Lagos State (2002)18 NWLR (Pt. 799)605, pointing out that Keyamo said, “Once the Supreme Court pronounces on an issue, it becomes binding on even the lawyer who loses and he is bound to obey and defend the judgment of the court. So assuming (which is not conceded) that I made any kind of accusation in the matter, once the Supreme Court ruled, that was the end of the matter and from that moment, it behoves me to stop pushing a matter already laid to rest by the highest court of the land and defend the decision.

“Nigerians would be hearing from the horse’s mouth as to what actually transpired during the battle that raged then and how the matter was eventually laid to rest,” he said, adding that he is “the greatest defender of Asiwaju on the issue today”.

Keyamo in the statement on Tuesday declared: “these battles we waged were not borne out of bitterness and hate” but to “unravel the truth and the real constitutional powers of the House.

“So, once the issue was laid to rest, we move on. Anyone who thinks I would still harbour any kind of resentment more than 20 years later should examine his/her head.”