Atiku’s Spokesman, Bwala, Sues APC, Chairman Over N125m Debt

A spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the last election, Daniel Bwala,

has filed a legal suit against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, demanding payment of N125 million for his legal services.

Bwala said the amount is an accumulation of his legal fees for services rendered to the party.

In a suit No. CV/2009/2023 at the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja, Crystal Chambers is praying the court for an order compelling APC and its Chairman, Adamu to pay him the 125m debt, 25m cost of the suit and 10 percent interest on the judgement till the liquidation of the fees

He said the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) is the debt owed by the Defendants to the Claimant for the concluded cases.

The court papers seen by our correspondent shows that “the Claimant took steps to file all court processes, appeared in all the cases, both within and outside jurisdiction (Abuja, Osun State, Cross-river State, Kaduna State, Benue State and Ondo State) and prosecuted the cases diligently to their logical conclusion.

“That the Claimant sent progress reports to the Defendants on every occasion any of the matters came up in court.”

According to the papers, the Claimants professional fee for the nine (9) concluded cases is the sum of N135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty-Five Million Naira).

“ That the Defendants have so far paid the sum of N15, 000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira Only), leaving the sum of N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as outstanding.”

The papers shows that the Claimant’s law firm wrote the Defendants, informing them of conclusion of the nine (9) cases, and demanded for payment of the sum of N120, 000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira Only) as full and final payment of their professional fees.

Bwala said the APC may have refusal to pay him his fees because after dumping the party, he joined PDP and became Atiku’s spokesman.

While he noted that all efforts he made to collect his payments were not heeded by the APC leadership,

Bwala said he will be compelled to add the President-elect as a defendant in the suit to compel the party to pay him his fees.