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Why Judgement Seizing Nigeria’s Aircraft Will Be Vacated Soon – Adebayo

by Chibuzo Ukaibe
11 months ago
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The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said the judgment seizing the presidential aircraft by the Chinese Company was a temporary setback that would be vacated in the next hearing.

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He said immediately Nigeria appears before the court and shows that the planes are diplomatic assets, the court will lift the seizure.

The former presidential candidate said no entity of the state attaches assets, money, or property belonging to a sovereign nation on contracts.

He said things went wrong when the Chinese firm and the Ogun State Government, which were supposed to be partners, became opponents and started litigation.

Adebayo said: “Sometimes, these businesses outlive the tenure of the incumbent governor, and the successor might not understand the seriousness and decide to terminate the contract.

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“But internationally, when you engage investors and you sign these contracts, you are not only signing commercial contracts, you are also signing treaties in some situations, and if there is a dispute between the government and the investor, the investor may decide to sue on their own, in a regular court, or it may go into arbitration, or state treaty arbitration.

“In this case, as a Nigerian doing business in China, there is an agreement internationally which Nigeria and China are signatories to, where they say if our citizen is doing business in the other country, they can do arbitration through the mechanism of the treaty.

“So, the issue we need to understand is that the dispute is not originally a federal government obligation; it is an obligation of Ogun State. But, under public international law, subdivisions, subsidiaries, and sub-nationals are not recognised internationally.

“So, if a state out of the 36 states in Nigeria has an international obligation, Nigeria will be the one to be held to account. That is where Nigeria is implicated in the matter. We also need to know that it is not a loan; it is not as if Nigeria took a loan and used any of these national assets as collateral.

“No, it was business that was supposed to be done between the Ogun State Government and the Chinese private firm, which has gone to arbitration to allege that the Ogun State Government breached the contract by stopping them from making progress and they have suffered losses and both parties went to arbitration.

 

 

 

“The second stage where it went wrong is that when you go to arbitration and the arbitration award is against you, you should try for the sake of your reputation to pay. But, on some occasions, the state entity involved may be advised by the lawyers that the arbitrators made a mistake, misconduct themselves, and went outside their jurisdiction.

 

 

 

“So, some of these things may go into litigation, and sometimes, it is just a lack of political will to deal with the issue, and they are dealing with it casually. The interim attachment of the presidential jets doesn’t mean that the jets have been lost because, under international law, assets of the Federal Government used by the government for diplomacy and monies kept in our central bank for banking activities are immune.

 

 

 

“No court at any time can attach them. I want us to understand that clearly. So, when you go to court for an interim order, typically only one side is heard, the court has not heard from Nigeria’s side, so the Chinese firm going to court to say that these are aircraft like any other aircraft, they are for maintenance in France and any person, whether you are in government or not can bring your aircraft for maintenance and seize the aircraft.

 

 

 

“So, the court might be inclined to just put a temporary seizure and serve notice on Nigeria to appear. I believe that as the law stands, once Nigeria appears there and can demonstrate, especially with the assistance of the foreign ministry of the French government, that these are diplomatic assets, the court will lift the seizure.”


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