“Is the Banker’s Committee a court? Even at that, why did Honeywell file an action in court after the so-called decision of the banker’s court? If it had won in its eight years sojourn in all tiers of our courts, would it still seek refuge in the Banker’s Committee?” the eminent lawyer queried.
He further argued that Sanusi had a vested interest in the dispute, having worked as the chief executive of First Bank during a period when Oba Otudeko held forth as chairman of the bank.
He said: “I am of the considered opinion that the views of His Royal Highness Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi circulated in the press must have been quoted out of context or outrightly misquoted since it is an intervention he ought not to have ventured into.
“First, his career trajectory which peaked as a Managing Director with Otudeko in the chair of First Bank from which vantage position he was appointed a CBN governor qualifies him as an interested/biased intervener!
