.@AMADICHIMA wrote a long thread on @fkeyamo I do not know @AMADICHIMA personally. I never met him during the pro democracy struggle but my friend and Comrade @AbdulMahmud01 contacted me recently about Amadi (They have met).

I will voice my own opinion on Amadi's

Thread 👇
BACKGROUND: In 2003 the SSS stormed my BA flight leaving MMA Airport for the UK. Came to my seat and removed me on the directive of Lateef Kayode Are a retired Nigerian Army Colonel who was Director General of the Nigerian secret police. I was taken to Abuja by road that night.
On getting to Abuja I was kept in one of the SSS HQ I was blindfolded and then driven to one of the many SSS detention centre in the middle of no where. Kept incommunicado. 15 days into my detention I met with Kayode Are who wanted some sort of 'Agreement' as instructed by OBJ
I turned down the request presented by SSS Director Are which include denouncing the Oodua Republic Front, the OPC and then acting as a state witness against Dr Frederick Fasehun Gani Adams and OPC Executives including Dr Beko Ranseome Kuti. I was returned to the SSS jail.
I chose to be in detention despite tactics used bySSS than compromise. I had no way of knowing what was going on in outside world. Day 36 into my detention I was SUDDENLY woken up from my cell and told we were going to court. That will be my first contact with the outside world.
On getting to court it dawned on me that @fkeyamo had spent the last 30 days of my kidnap from an international flight by the Nigerian state going to one court or the other trying to enforce my fundamental human rights. He finally got an injunction that I must be produced.
.@fkeyamo went to court pro bono, he had been in court for other Nigerians, one being at some point for @YeleSowore the founder of @SaharaReporters and I also know for Asari Dokubo.
Recently when know one would touch the case of Charles Okah. Henry did without conditions.
That @AMADICHIMA will pass @fkeyamo as some sort of dull, unworthy charge and bail lawyer just because he chose pit tent with @OfficialPDPNig and @fkeyamo chose @MBuhari is sad. That he passes his own opinion as facts even makes the joke dry. Opinions are not fact. Facts speaks.
I have no personal opinion on @AMADICHIMA as we have not had reasons to meet, our met during the students movement or pro democracy struggle. The Nigerian student body was large, you are very unlikely to meet everyone. but @AbdulMahmud01 confirm they worked together.
My only contact with @AMADICHIMA was during #osunrerun he posted commentaries about being an independent observer and I pointed out that being an open supporter of @OfficialPDPNig he can not make such claims. I have been very open about my support for @MBuhari from 2007-date
I believe activists, journalists, op-ed writers, professionals should be open and transparent about their bias if they have a bias, that way the public will be left to judge whatever they say. That is a more transparent form of advocacy than pretending to be independent.
I then believed @AMADICHIMA was not open about his support for @OfficialPDPNig my comrade @AbdulMahmud01 pointed out that he (Chima) also supported @MBuhari in 2015 and I said it was not relevant, he should be clear and be open about his current status and not hide under NGO.
.@AMADICHIMA tweet about @fkeyamo , SAN, a few days ago, In my opinion came across as was a hatchet job. I have known Keyamo for decades in the struggle. I drew @fkeyamo's attention to it, he laughed it off & said I shouldn’t bother myself & that it was just comedy.
.@fkeyamo said as a lawyer he doesn’t respond to allegations without an iota of supporting evidence, which the vituperations of @AMADICHIMA was all about. I agreed. But I insisted this was not a law court. Now I will leave you to your own conclusions here 👇 FACTS ARE FACTS
Firstly, @fkeyamo , did not lose any of cases @AMADICHIMA accused him to have compromised. Chima said he lost Kenny Martins case. In fact, Keyamo won the case at the Appeal & Supreme Courts. He didn’t conduct it at the High Court. Evidence attached👇. So, where is d compromise?
👇 FACTS ARE FACTS

Now with the attached facts, will @AMADICHIMA advise himself again on @fkeyamo's handling of the Kenny Martins case? Honourable people will. I wait.
Similarly, @fkeyamo won Ladoja case at Appeal Court. Evidence attached👇. Both d Martins & Ladoja cases were won on preliminary points & remitted back 4 trials as d courts agreed with Keyamo they had cases to answer. Copies of the judgments show the miserable lies of @AMADICHIMA
In Ladoja’s case, the Appeal Court praised both @fkeyamo & Olanipekun for the excellent Briefs they submitted to the court for the adjudication of the case. When such top jurists praise lawyers, it is always an indication of excellence. Lawyers can read the full judgment of 2014
If there’s any evidence of underhand dealings, would Festus have had d courage to conduct & win these cases? D fact that @AMADICHIMA has lied that @fkeyamo lost cases he never lost shows how low Chima can go just cus he backs @OfficialPDPNig & @fkeyamo backs @MBuhari and APC.
Now let us look at @AMADICHIMA's assertion regarding Gani Fawehinmi.
BACKGROUND:
Gani is an irreplaceable comrade and hero. I am a living testimony of Gani's magnanimity.
When IBB regime charged myself and about 13 of my comrades in UNIJO before a Military tribunal Gani stood.
If Gani Fawehinmi had not stood for us, sending lawyers across the country myself and my Comrades could have been convicted to life in jail just for demanding a return to civilian rule and speaking for the oppressed in our society. We owe our victory in court to Gani.
Aside from representing us pro-bono in the military tribunal myself, then NANS President @AbdulMahmud01 Kemi Afolayan, Ben Okonofua. late Dominic Ogampa and others would never had graduated from UNIJOS, we got expelled 2 times Gani fought our reinstatement.
Even when Jos Prison was the home of myself and Ben Okonofua Gani fought to the point that I was allowed to write the draft of my final year project from Jos prison with the help of then ASSU head in UNIJOS Iyorchia Ayu convincing lmy supervisor to visit me in prison for reviews.
.@AbdulMahmud01 Emma Edigheji can testify that Gani Fawehinmi was worshiped by Comrades in UNIJOS. We had the Gani solidarity movement. I was privilege to champion that with my comrades, we raised funds when the State wanted to clampdown on Gani. But Gani was not infalible
To make @fkeyamo disagreement with Gani Fawehinmi a big deal chose .@AMADICHIMA does not understand the tradition he claims to have come from. In the left we disagree a lot, actually back then we hardly vote, superior arguments are allowed to reign supreme. It is not a big deal.
I am weary of comrades who used the term 'reactionary' 'state agents' etc. I remember a gentleman who nurtured us in UNIJOS. I will call him by his first name Chima. We were made to believe he was an 'agent'
It took years after UNIJOS that the truth came out, he was never one.
It was the tradition in the students movement that when people can't defeat you, they label you 'state agent' 'reactionary' etc. Those who labelled others where the first to jump into the political arena when we left school and break the NANS 10 point demand.
.@fkeyamo distinguished himself when he did his NYSC with Gani & was later retained as a full staff. For one, he was adjudged the Best Lawyer (NYSC) in the Chambers in March, 1994. See attached Certificate. He was also the first Northern Co-ordinator of Gani’s National Conscience
.@AMADICHIMA questioned @fkeyamo ’s elevation as an SAN! A man the whole nation saw as he was shortlisted & denied severally? Keyamo’s CV shows he graduated with a 2.1. Here is a publication where he was the Best Advocate at his Final Year in a National Moot Trial Competition👇
After @fkeyamo was conferred with his SANship, here is a publication where the creme de la creme of the profession poured encomiums on him. Olanipekun, Falana, Awomolo, JB Daudu, Yusuf Alli, Oyetibo, Chris Uche, etc - all SANs. Also the NJI, Justice Galadima, JSC. See below👇.
FACTS ARE FACTS 👇

MORE HERE 👇

Colleagues on @fkeyamo
FACTS ARE FACTS 👇

Colleagues on @fkeyamo

MORE HERE 👇
As @fkeyamo activities as a student, Please check referred d Facebook page of no other person than d Student Union President of AAU at the time @AMADICHIM referred to. Please, read the post of Francis E Waive on 28/10/2018 at about 11.20pm and see how it exposes Chima's lies.
Hear him ‘I presided at the Congress where a decision was taken... to protest the arrest of Mayegun and others by the military junta. (Festus) never argued against the protest but was strongly in support of it. Infact he was our link with (Gani) especially when we had issues’
.@AMADICHIMA painted Keyamo as a very rich lawyer. That means @fkeyamo must be doing what he believes in & not for pecuniary gains. is it not sad that Chima would not expect a hard-working lawyer to be super-comfortable yet Chima defends civil-servants-turned-billionaires?
It was well reported at the time that some party members, including @fkeyamo , took Gani to court over disagreements on the running of the NCP. It was nothing personal and the world saw that the issue was resolved much later as Gani stood by Keyamo in all his battles till death.
Comrades disagree on methods, I disagreed with Chief Gani Fawhinmi on many occasions on methods, it does not make him less my hero, I had reasons to disagree with Dt Frederick Fasehun in OPC and left, does not make him less a leaders. The DOES NOT have supreme leaders.
If .@AMADICHIMA really knows Chief Gani Fawhinmi, he's reputed disagreeing with everyone, he's our special one, no one took it personal. When Gani supported General Buhari the left was not happy but he stood his ground. When Gani defied NBA & rejected to boycott military courts
.@AMADICHIMA makes disagreement within the left a sacrilege, no it isn't
If there is anyone I will take a bullet for that person is @YeleSowore today he's running as candidate for @NGRPresident but I back @MBuhari we disagree but keep our relationships, we both speak our minds.
.@atiku @MBuhari @GEJonathan and other politicians disagree but they have an area of convergence.
@AMADICHIMA can disagree with @fkeyamo but to present his opinions as facts without supporting documents limits his presentations as just opinions.

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