Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, weekend urged Nigerians not to rush into conclusions in the bribery allegation involving former Chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy management, Farouk Lawan and oil magnate, Chief Femi Otedola until the matter has been thoroughly investigated.

Speaking after the inauguration of Ikere-Ekiti Chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,Olanipekun said the way and manner the bribery allegation was made against the former leader of the Integrity Group in the National Assembly actually made the matter look senseless in the face of the law.

Olanipekun argued that the allegation  sounded unreal to every discernible minds because the claim and position canvassed by Otedola in his narration of how the 620,000 dollars was offered to Lawan , was not in tandem with the process of ‘entrapping’. According to him, the mere fact that the bribery saga was not reported immediately the money exchanged hands left  much to be desired

His words: “The matter was made easy for Otedola to handle because he claimed that Lawan came to his house in Abuja to collect the bribe. If actually he put the security in the  know of how he was being  allegedly pressured  to offer bribe  against his conscience, Lawan should have been arrested at that point”.

“In security circle and anywhere in the world, the victim is arrested on the spot when entrapping is being applied. But this was not the case in this issue and that was where I thought all these allegations against Lawan were senseless for now”.

He further argued that “Marked money is usually done by applying powder on the money and this cannot last more than 24 hours. So, this issue is beyond my comprehension for now”.

He maintained that Otedola’s claim failed to appeal to commonsense by just exposing the fraud forty days after he said he allegedly offered  the bribe to Lawan to kill the House’s oil subsidy probe.

The former NBA President, counseled the upcoming Lawyers  to explore into trans-border practice, Corporate , Insurance , Banking and Documentations  aspects of Legal practices to brighten their  careers,  rather than to be searching for short-cut to success.