Mr. Lere Olayinka, media aide to Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has accused top All Progressives Congress (APC) member Honorable Femi Gbajabiamila of being convicted for stealing $25,000 as a lawyer in the United States.
Olayinka made the accusation following reactions to the appointment of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori’s appointment into Peoples Democratic Party’s convention committee.
In the statement titled “Ibori’s appointment into PDP Convention Committee and APC hypocrisy”, Lere Olayinka noted that the first National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande was jailed in 1984 by a Tribunal duly set up by Buhari’s military regime for using funds belonging to the old Oyo State to fund his political party.
“Interestingly, Baba Bisi Akande was only released from jail and not pardoned by the Ibrahim Babangida government,” Olayinka noted.
“It is also a fact that it was late Chief Sunday Afolabi who prevailed on the Osun State PDP not to go to court to raise the issue of Akande’s conviction vis his qualification to contest election as a governor in 1999.”
He further stated that Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the APC Leader in the House of Representatives was convicted for professional misconduct by the Supreme Court of Georgia, United States of America.
“Fact is Hon Gbajabiamila was convicted in the United States for stealing his client’s $25,000 and he is leading the APC in the House of Reps. He was banned from practising law in the USA for 36 months,” he said.
“The punishment for Femi Gbaja’s offence would have been debarment for life, however he played dead before a full panel of the Supreme Court of Georgia led by Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, before the court could rule on the petition from his client, he filed a petition for Voluntary Discipline, filed under bar rule 4-227(b) in which he fully admitted to stealing $25,000 from his client.
“In spite of this indictment, Gbajabiamila was even presented to be Speaker of the House of Reps and same APC people are condemning the inclusion of Ibori in the PDP National Convention Committee.”
