A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Dr. Daniel Bwala, has filed a lawsuit against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, for a N125 million debt that has not been paid.
Bwala claims that the party and its leadership have refused and neglected to pay the debt that has accumulated as a result of legal services that have been provided to the party over time.
Crystal Chambers is asking the court for an order compelling APC and its Chairman, Adamu, to pay him the N125 million debt, N25 million cost of the suit, and 10% interest on the judgment until the liquidation of the fees in suit No. CV/2009/2023 at the High Court of the Federal Capital in Abuja.
According to him, the sum of N120,000,000 is the debt owed by the defendants to the claimant for the concluded cases.
The court papers filed by Crystal Chambers, read in part; “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.
“The Claimants professional fee for the nine concluded cases is the sum of N135,000,000.
“That the Defendants have so far paid the sum of N15,000,000 leaving the sum of N120,000,000 as outstanding.”
The documents further showed that the claimant’s law firm wrote the defendants, informing them of the conclusion of the nine cases, and demanded payment of the sum of N120,000,000 as full and final payment of their professional fees.
When Bwala was reached to give more details, he said he suspected that the refusal to pay him his fees might be because he left the party and not only joined PDP but became a spokesman to Atiku Abubakar, where he played a leading role in his campaign.
Speaking on the efforts he made, Bwala added that he exhausted all diplomatic means to secure payments but all his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Bwala said in the event his fees were not paid he will proceed to add the President-elect as a defendant in the suit to compel the party to pay him his fees.