Four Senior Advocates of Nigeria, representing Farouk Lawan have petitioned the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, asking for a face-to-face confrontation between the lawmaker and Otedola.
The lawyers are Mike Ozekhome, Rickey Tarfa, Isreal Olorundare and Sam Ologunorisa.
In a petition dated June 22 and obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, the lawyers urged the police to thoroughly investigate the allegation.
They said Lawan was willing “to have a face-to-face confrontation with Otedola before you (the IG) in the course of investigation into this matter.”
The SANs also faulted the video which allegedly contained what transpired between Otedola and their client.
They challenged the “State Security Service, the police, Mr. Otedola or any other person for that matter, to produce for public viewing the video or film and call logs of the conversation between him (Lawan) and Otedola unedited and undoctored.”
According to them, Lawan never visited Otedola’s house in Lagos to collect the $500,000.
The lawyers also claimed that the lawmaker did not hide the so-called bribe money “in his pocket, and the leftover inside his cap.”
In a nine-page petition titled, “Honourable Farouk Lawan and Mr. Femi Otedola: When the complainant becomes the suspect”, the lawyers said that their client briefed them that he never solicited $3m or any other sum from Otedola as bribe.
Source; trends.com.ng
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