A top lawyer interested and a little bit close to the case called me yesterday.
Edgar, I want to talk to you as a lawyer and a brother and I said oya, Im listening.
Edgar, Aigboje is at fault here. Tochi is a woman, we should look at twenty years from now. She will marry and the wealth would leave the Wigwe Family…
I wanted to faint. I swear I wanted to faint.
In my career as a busy body, I have been severally accused of bias and i never deny it.
Im not a newsman, I don’t report news. Im a commentator who just says his own and moves on
So its left to you the reader to interprete what I have said any how you feel and that’s why I have started saying at the end of the write ups – come and beat me
So after I dropped yesterday’s write up on this saga, I was inundated with calls
Edgar welldone, Edgar you drilled it down, Edgar you are baised, Edgar why not wait to hear from the other side
My bias has never been hidden so read me if you want to hear a commentary in firm support of Aigboje and Tochi
If your plan is to get a balanced view mbok leave me alone
But for context, let me even reharsh what I have heard from the other side in the last 24 hours
‘A’ is very close to the other side and he called – Edgar, make I land and I go call you tell you somethings
Edgar that ‘Will’ being bandied is fake. Herbert never wrote a will. That will was written in California and as such there is no justification.
Look Edgar everybody has a fault-from Herbert to Aig, to Toshi to Emeka, to grandfather to all
We all have to sit down on a round table and thrash this thing out.
He continues – see Edgar, you are a banker and you know how you guys can be. Can you swear that since Herbert died, that Aig has not toyed with the shareholding of the Bank?
Edgar the issue is the will. Did Herbert know that he will die with his wife? Have you read the will? The family is only contesting to be allowed control of the younger children.
Another big lawyer calls in – Edgar if Herbert was paying my school fees I too can lay a claim on the Will.
He continued, do you know that the Court can override that will and step in?
Aghh I shouted-so we shd all not bother about writing any will again since court can just over turn it and she shouted YES
Another one came from an Islamic angle. Edgar, I thank God, Im a Muslim as Islam has taken care of everything.
Everybody would have been taken care off
I quickly reminded him of MKO Abiola whose descendants are still tearing themselves apart despite his massive islamic stature
My people some people with common sense have said it that if Herbert died like my father, we would not be here.
Simple
Let me tell you guys a story
I was on my own jeje at BGL, when my inlaw called me – Edgar we have just gone retail and we need more hands
I was an investment banker and never really liked the idea of commercial banking
I had tried it at Magnum Trust bank and didn’t like it so when Maryann made the offer, I accepted cos I didnt want to annoy my inlaw
So I went thru the motions and scalled thru very successfully.
They loved me and where going to give me AGM which in banking is huge
Then they said you have to meet Herbert and I said ok
By this time, the prospect of joining Access Bank was exciting as they had mentioned a Jeep and some mouth watering offers plus fine office.
I was ready o and then I met Herbert. He was handsome and well dressed
He liked me instantly and was very likeable.
He didnt ask me any serious questions once he heard I was from BGL.
All he asked was how would Albert take it and I said mbok Albert will be ok and we laughed and gisted
Then he said, this is Aigboje’s last few days, just walk across and say Hi. You dont have to but out of courtsey just go.
I had heard so much about both. BGL had worked with them on some transactions so I knew of them but never had direct dealings
So I walked into Aigboje’s office and he asked for CV
I open mouth. Why do you want to cross over, he asked and by the time he finished with me, Jeep don disappear
This difering styles is the crux of todays problem
Herbert did so many things informally while Aigboje would be more structured and firm
Herberts passing has left a lot of people including these ones in court today in the lurch hence all the shout – Is Aigboje a Wigwe and all of dt noise.
The question I keep asking all the people on the other side is
If you were Herbert and knowing what you know, who would you hand over your vulnerable children to in a situation like this
If you the reader can answer this question very truthfully, you will now truly understand this fight
I remain biased and I stay in my bias corner until proven otherwise, till then, someone should come and beat me
Thanks
Duke of Shomolu