My God! Barrister Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, the President, Nigerian Bar Association, is the one shamelessly finding faults with the Judges & Counsels in the Kano State Government/ Emirates Legal Brouhaha! Wonderful.
Let Maikyau then explain to the World who’s been abusing the Court Processes in respect of the Kebbi State versus Alhaji Almustapha H Jokolo dilly dallying the Case for almost ten years in the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
When I wrote a petition against him to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, which was acknowledged, who then connived with the Supreme Court Staff to hide the Petition. Who also had been instrumental to our Case Files “missing”, some days before the Hearing Date?
Who are the Appellants who always cause unnecessary & embarrassing Adjustments for up to TWO Years to the consternations & disbelief of ALL observers?
Yakubu Maikyau should be ashamed of himself making these shameless assertions in respect of the happenings in Kano State Judiciary. His tenure as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association has been riddled with one scandal after another. During their last Annual NBA we were publicly treated to scandalous verbal exchanges between himself & his NBA Executives of accusations and counter accusations. 
Furthermore, he vilified one of his Executives for collecting mere N100,000 to which the other person reduced him to a petty mind by exonerating himself & putting Maikyau on the defensive.
It was the same Maikyau who in 1996 prepared Court Papers before Justice Kolawale a vacation judge of an Abuja Federal High Court ( now a Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal ) accusing me of planning to “ murder “ Major General Muhammadu Iliyasu Bashar ( the imposter Emir of Gwandu ), my first cousin & his family: his wife Hadiza, my own sister, his children, my nephews, including one of them who is married to my first daughter!
This case was heard during the time the Courts were on vacation and without even serving my then lawyer, Barrister Abubakar Cika Malami ( former Hon Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation ) being served with any Court Documents!
The Case was heard without my representation & a Ruling was given that I should not be allowed to go to any part of Kebbi State. This was the period we were attending our Court Case.
How on earth could I go to Court with such an outrageous Ruling despite the fact that I had obtained a sound & subsisting Judgment from the Federal High Court in Abuja by His Lordship, Justice Stephen Adah which guaranteed my freedom of movement.
We wrote a petition to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, late Kutigi, CJN, who personally signed a Query to Justice Kolawole to explain his scandalous Ruling. Unfortunately, before the reply was given, CJN Kutigi retired.
The next thing I heard from NJC was that the Petition was “ Subjudiced “ ; whatever that meant in their Legal Jargon! The Case is still pending in the Federal High Court, Abuja. That’s Maikyau’s Standard Operation Procedure.
Since Maikyau took over as the Lawyer representing Kebbi State, it had been one Adjournment after another in the Supreme Court for always not less than eight months every year or even two years for ten years.
During this time he had been milking the Kebbi State of huge sums of money like one time he collected over 93 million Naira at one go during the Administration of the Infamous Abubakar Atiku Bagudu.
Atiku appointed him as the Chairman of the Kebbi State Hospital constructed & equipped by Governor Sa’idu Nasamu. But millions of Naira have been released to Maikyau without any services being rendered including bringing foreign experts but the hospital is still idle along Birnin Kebbi/ Kalgo Road.
Atiku Bagudu also appointed Maikayau as a member of the Governing Council of Aliero University in Aliero Town.
As the President of the NBA, Maikyau is automatically a member of the National Judicial Service Commission, NJC.
When the husband of Justice Bulkachuwa, Senator Bulkachuwa made a statement in the Senate Chamber that he had helped some the Senators with their Court Cases, Maikyau seized that opportunity to write to the Inspector General of Police to immediately investigate the Senator. Everyone smelled a rat that Maikyau had a score to settle with Justice Bulkachuwa, retired President of the Federal Court of Appeal. Otherwise why prompt the IGP to do his duty?
During the last Supreme Court Sitting in the Case of Kebbi State versus Alhaji Almustapha Jokolo, Maikyau got more than he bargained for from his Federal Law School Classmate, my lawyer, Barrister Sylvester Imhanobe. Imhanobe accused Maikyau of being a “Professional Adjournment Lawyer “ whose stock in trade is unnecessary adjournments and delays.
I cannot speak more because it is subjudiced to borrow their Legal Jargon.
However, the Justices of the Supreme Court have taken him to task & we have a date with Destiny on 27 November, 2024 when we meet for Definite Hearing.
We’re watching to see what he as the Lawyer of the Appellants come up with; Hiding our Court Documents or asking for another Adjournment? Time will tell.
Maikyau’s crocodile tears in respect of the Kano State Government/Emirate Council court cases is just attempting to deodorise a skunk! He should stop insulting the collective intelligence of Nigerians. We see through his predictable stage performances. Almighty Allah knows best.
Peace.
•Alhaji Almustapha H. Jokolo,
The Emir of Gwandu
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