WikiLeaks:2007 presidential poll: Yar’Adua bought judgment for $57m

A glimpse of what may have led to the split decision victory that confirmed the late Umaru Yar’Adua as winner of the 2007 presidential election emerged yesterday from the latest dispatches of WikiLeaks. Latest US diplomatic cable reports leaked by the wire spy suggests that the Yar’Adua team may have coughed out a whopping $57 million to procure a favourable judgment. It further alleged that the judgment may have actually been written in the Presidency and handed to the jurists to read to the public. A named minister was said to have done the writing. However, this claim is sharply at variance with an earlier dispatch from the same source which confirmed how resolute and incorruptible the leadership of the Supreme Court at that in time was, having refused all manner of inducements from the presidency