Patentees Suffer Over 4 Months Adjournment As Queen Akon Uwemedimo Made Efforts To Destroy The Legacies Of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo

Patentees Suffer Over 4 Months Adjournment
As Queen Akon Uwemedimo Made Efforts To Destroy The Legacies Of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo

(1.0)Introduction

(2.0)Live Commentary Of Proceedings In
The Supreme Court Of Nigeria.

(3.0)Legacies of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo

(4.0)Conclusion

(1.0)Introduction

(1.1)The fifteen (15) years` old Patent Right Infringement Litigation between Comandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited took a new and dramatic dimension on the 2nd of June, 2015 in the Supreme Court of Nigeria when two distinct legal counsels from different legal firms showed their appearances for Comandclem Nigeria Limited before Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen (JSC) 

(1.2)The legal firm of Babatunde Aiku & Co, who was duly contacted and briefed by Late King Professor CJA Uwemedimo announced his appearance for Comandclem Nigeria Limited and simultaneously, Professor Bankole Sodipo & Co, who was said to have been employed by Akon Uwemedimo (one of the Wives Of Late King Professor CJA Uwemedimo), also announced his appearance for Comandclem Nigeria Limited in the same suit (SC.69/2011) before the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the 2nd of June, 2015.

(2.0)Live Commentary Of Proceedings In The Supreme Court Of Nigeria.

(2.1)The conversations below exhibited blow by blow account of live proceedings in an appeal involving Comandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited in the Supreme Court of Nigeria on the 2nd of June, 2015.

(2.2) Happy reading.

When the Presiding Judge, Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen (JSC), discovered that two Counsels showed their appearances for the Cross Respondent/Applicant (Comandclem Nigeria Limited) in the same suit, Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen (JSC) said and I quote him verbatim.

“Why should we have two of you standing and announcing for the Cross Respondent/Applicant (Comandclem Nigeria limited)?”

Babatunde Aiku (SAN) stood up and replied Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen (JSC) as follows.

“When we appear before your lordships on the 3rd of November, 2014, Professor Bankole Sodipo was announced as my junior.

I have never seen this type of thing in my life.

My lord, when the Chairman of Comandclem Nigeria Limited died on the 18th of July, 2014, the first son now told me that he wanted to bring other counsels in, and I told him that I had no problem with that.

And I announced Professor Bankole Sodipo as a counsel standing with me on that day, and he now went ahead to file applications without consulting me. But I don’t want to get involved but my decision now is to ask for a short adjournment so that counsels can sort out their differences. I am not here to quarrel with anybody.”

After listening to the argument of Dr. Eyimofe Atake (SAN) (Counsel of Mobil Oil) with respect to the short adjournment being requested for by Babatunde Aiku (SAN), Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen (JSC) made the follow statements.

“I think the best thing to do in this circumstance is to give them the chance, let them come back with one counsel to represent them, then on that day, the court can look into those applications and move in terms.

By sitting down here, we are ready to deal with the matter; at least those applications that are in the case files, not those ones that are just coming in now.

If we don’t do that, they will say we have denied them fair hearing, and there is no other court to appeal except on the internet.

So, Dr. Eyimofe Atake (SAN), we take you down that you reluctantly concede for an adjournment.”

(3.0)Legacies of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo

(3.1) One of the legacies of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo, when he was alive, was to allow Barrister Rev. Barr Jesse Daniels Onuigbo to write applications to the Supreme Court of Nigeria while Babatunde Aiku (SAN) presides over the legal counsels of Comandclem Nigeria Limited in the apex court of the land.

(3.2) Prince Reginould Uwemedimo was said to have debriefed Barrister Rev. Barr Jesse Daniels Onuigbo, while Queen Akon Uwemedimo was said to have debriefed Babatunde Aiku (SAN),there by destroying the legacies of King Professor CJA Uwemedimo.

(3.3)Professor Bankole Sodipo who was said to have been employed by Queen Akon Uwemedimo had absolutely nothing upstairs to defeat the Legal Counsels of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited.

(3.4)Professor Bankole Sodipo exhibited high level of unprofessionalism and poor legal understanding when he filed an application for substitution of the Cross Respondents` Reply Brief with Order 28 Rule (1) of the Supreme Court Rule which never existed.

(3.5) I quote Professor Bankole Sodipo verbatim.
“Motion On Notice Brought Pursuant To Order 28 Rule (1) Of The Supreme Court Rule And Under The Inherent Jurisdiction Of This Honourable Court”

(3.6) Dr. Eyimofe Atake (SAN) replied to the above legal blunder of Professor Bankole Sodipo as follows.

“That the applicant`s motion on notice is brought pursuant to a non-existent order. There is no “order 28 Rule 1” in the Rules of this honourable court.”

(4.0)Conclusion

(4.1)All the good dreams, expectations, and benefit of patentees as formulated by Comandclem Nigeria Limited can only be actualized if Queen Akon Uwemedimo and Prince Reginould Uwemedimo follow the legacies, philosophies and policies of Late King Professor CJA Uwemedimo.

(4.2)From the look of things, Queen Akon Uwemedimo and Prince Reginould Uwemedimo have completely deviated from the legacies, philosophies and policies of Late King Professor CJA Uwemedimo the result of which is injurious to the investments of all the CCNL Patentees.

(4.3) Comandclem Nigeria Limited is not a family affairs but a corporate affair.

(4.3) Be it rainfall or sunshine, the legacies, philosophies, and policies of Late King Professor CJA Uwemedimo must stand so as to protect the investments of hundreds of thousands of innocent patentees.

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