VIDEO: CJN spotted observing Jumat prayers in Abuja amidst reports of ‘secret meeting with Tinubu in London’
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kayode Ariwoola was on Friday spotted observing Jumat prayers at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Central Mosque in Abuja.
The development is coming in the wake of reports that the CJN allegedly met with President-elect, Bola Tinubu in London.
Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council had earlier refuted claims that CJN was meeting Tinubu in London. According to them, Tinubu was in France and not London as being speculated in the report.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Kayode Ariwoola leaving the Supreme Court for the Ansar-Ud-Deen Central Mosque, Abuja, to observe Juma’at prayers, TODAY.
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In a statement on Thursday, Bayo Onanuga, media director of the campaign council decried an attempt to create doubt about the legitimacy of the election that produced Tinubu as president-elect.
Onanuga said the president-elect is currently in Paris, France, and not in the UK.
He stated, “The story was a pure concoction from the hallucinating minds of hatchet men bent on creating doubts and public distrust about the legitimacy of our recent election, which was won by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We refute emphatically that there has been no clandestine meeting between the president-elect and the respected chief justice of our country, anywhere. It’s pure fabricated news, groundless in fact and authenticity.
“To show that the story was a mere salacious fiction, meant to draw traffic to the discredited purveyor, it claimed the Chief Justice left Nigeria for London on 11 March, on a wheelchair to board a plane.
“The president-elect left Nigeria on 21 March, 10 clear days thereafter. What kind of appointment or secret meeting will the two men have arranged in London, with such widely disparate arrival dates, except in the imagination of the false news merchants?
“We can confirm that the president-elect, who left Nigeria Tuesday, has not been in London. He is right now in France to have a deserved rest, after a hectic campaign that began in January 2022.
“He will go to London thereafter before proceeding to Mecca for the lesser Hajj.”
