2nd January, 2026
The Chairman,
Sahara Reporters Newspaper,
Nigeria.
REJOINDER BY BARR. ZUBAIRU A. BUBE: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON FALSE AND MALICIOUS ALLEGATIONS PUBLISHED BY SAHARA REPORTERS DATED 26TH DECEMBER, 2025. 7 DAYS NOTICE TO RETRACT THE UNFOUNDED
My attention has been drawn to a publication by Sahara Reporters titled “How Bauchi Governor’s Nephew allegedly used courts, lawyers to remand EFCC witness in N4.6 Billion fraud case” dated 26th December, 2025, wherein my name Barr. Zubairu A. Bube of DM Abejeme & Partners was recklessly mentioned and grossly misrepresented.
For the avoidance of doubt and to set the record straight, the allegations attributed against me in the said publication in connection to one Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu, Managing Director of I. S. Makayye whom I once represented in my legal capacity in Suit No:BA/688M/24 are false, malicious, and calculated to malign my person and professional integrity.
Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu was introduced to me by his cousin, Aliyu Galoji. Upon the approach he complained of issues at a police station at Tafawa Balewa Housing Estate as well as State CID. I intervened strictly in my professional capacity, and he was released on bail.
Subsequently, he narrated to me his alleged ordeal involving one Jidda Abubakar Inuwa and 2 others who, according to him, arrested him using a private Peugeot 406, took him to Abuja, later claimed to be EFCC official, and coerced him to implicate Muntaka Mohammed Duguri in respect of funds transferred to his company’s account by one Asomugha General Enterprises for the purchase of motorcycles.
He further claimed he was compelled to deny knowledge of the said transactions and the opening of the Polaris Bank account, and that it was only after making such statements that he was released. When Mr. Duguri became aware of these events, he instituted an action at the High Court of Justice, Bauchi State, for enforcement of his fundamental rights against the said Jidda Abubakar Inuwa, Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu, and I. S. Makayye. Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu then formally briefed me to defend him in Suit No. BA/688M/24.
At the point of brief-taking, Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu expressly informed me voluntarily and without inducement in the presence of that his friend and cousin (Adamu and Aliyu), that he was fully aware of the transactions in question and that they were carried out with his consent. This position was reduced into writing in his Counter-Affidavit dated 12th August, 2024. He personally read the counter affidavit prepared vide his brief to me, in the presence of his cousin Aliyu Galoji and his friend Adamu Wambai in rejoinder to the suit filed against him and his company in the suit No BA/688m/24 being a literate adult, before appending his signature. To now allege deception or fabrication of court processes is not only false but intellectually dishonest, as portrayed by Sahara Reporters of 26 day of December, 2026.
The allegation that I colluded with Muntaka Mohammed Duguri or received a Honda Accord (EOD, ash colour) from him as gratification is a barefaced lie. I purchased and have been driving the said vehicle since July 2023, long before I ever heard the name Muntaka Mohammed Duguri, which was first mentioned to me by Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu himself in June 2024. I had no prior relationship, meeting, or conversation with Mr. Duguri regarding Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu or any other matter neither have I represented Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu in 2023 when I bought my said vehicle.
Disturbingly, Isiaka Mohammed Aliyu once informed me of alleged secret conversations with EFCC officers (a male and a female whom he claimed has reached the rank of a director in EfCC) in Abuja, aimed at implicating Mr. Duguri and even the Commissioner of Finance, Dr. Yakubu Adamu, for pecuniary gain.
He went as far as giving me a phone number (08099990009) to contact one of this individual. I firmly declined and advised him to desist and do what is right. My refusal and insistence on ethical conduct angered him and eventually led to his debriefing me in his matters despite the fact that I had earlier secured a favourable judgment for him in another suit, in the suit no BA/580m/24 which he was the first respondent.
This rejoinder is necessary to protect my reputation from a calculated smear campaign designed to falsely link me with third parties. I remain a legal practitioner of integrity, and I reserve my right to seek appropriate legal redress against any further defamatory publication.
I humbly use this medium to call upon you and your organization to immediately as a matter of urgency withdraw or retract the said statements made against me on the 26 day of December, 2025 as they are false, malicious and wrong calculated to defame my professional integrity and to in that same vein publish a clear and unconditional retraction of all such statements as they relate to my personality and tender an unreserved apology in like manner within 7 days from the date of the receipt of this letter.
TAKE NOTICE, that in the event you disdain the content of this letter, I shall be left with no option but to becone on judiciary the last hope of the common man with legal action to seek reediness which cost and consequences will be borne by your organization.
TAKE, this letter is a formal rejoinder to your defamatory publication against my person and no further reference will be made to you before taking the alternative, option in the event you fail to comply with this letter.
Signed:
Barr. Zubairu A. Bube
DM Abejeme & Partners
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