The Aiteo Group has announced the appointment of a formidable Nigerian legal team to complement its already existing international legal defence structure.
Led by a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), the team parades top notch attorneys who have distinguished themselves in various engagements.
The roll call includes two former Attorneys General of the Federation namely, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN) and Chief Akin Olujimi (SAN); renowned constitutional lawyer and human rights crusader, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Messrs Paul Usoro (SAN), Rotimi Ogunesi (SAN) and A.U. Mustapha (SAN).
The team also includes such firebrand lawyers as Ebenezer Obeya, Chief Andrew Oru, Mrs. Boma Alabi, Messrs Chidi Nobis-Elendu, Emeka Ozoani and Joseph Nwatu.
Others in the team include security law expert Ebenezer Obeya, a former President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association Boma Alabi as well as the combative Andrew Oru.
According to Aiteo Group Executive Director and General Counsel, Mr. Andrew Onyearu, “the Group’s belief in the Rule of Law and the legal processes in Nigeria require engagement with both commitment and premium resources.
“Recently, our conviction in the infallibility of our judicial processes continues to be vindicated by judicial pronouncements deprecating the unjustified calumnious attacks on our business and personal outlook. Our respect for this process mandates that those who advocate positions on our behalf possess and demonstrate the type of world-class credentials that our lawyers clearly possess.”
He added that “at the fulcrum of this stance is that desire to ensure that the course of justice is chatted with the utmost sense of application, responsibility and expertise.
“The Group has been adversely affected by a litany of unsustainable unlawful developments affecting both reputational and commercial integrity in a manner that has negatively impacted its operations.
Thus he declared that “the Group can no longer allow this situation to continue and as such, has resolved to take steps to protect all its legal interests.
“Recent positive – and ground breaking – outcomes from judicial interventions that we have achieved serve as clear pointers about the direction that we are now pursuing. Increasing the successful utilization of the judicial process in areas where we have been wronged will be the main objective of the team we have now put together.”
“The scope of the work to be undertaken by the team will span the breadth of contentious legal work. It is understood, specifically, that one of its early mandates is to review defamatory publications commonly referred to as ‘open source’ materials in which Aiteo and Peters have been featured in the last few years and to redress these fabricated insinuations by all available means including court actions, a process which appears to have already started,” he said.