A human rights lawyer, Victor Giwa, has petitioned the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, seeking his intervention in what he described as perversion of justice in his trial before an FCT High Court.
Giwa is being prosecuted for alleged forgery in the court presided by Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie.
In the letter to the NBA President, Giwa complained of subversion of justice, abuse of office and weaponization of the court by the nominal complainant in the case, Asabe Waziri, alongside the AIG Legal of the Nigeria Police Force.
In the letter dated November 26, 2025, the human rights lawyer appealed to the NBA President to intervene in the matter, alleging that the complainant, Waziri, is in communication with the court concerning proceedings in the case.
“Asabe Waziri is the complainant, she funds the trial, and communicates with the court on the proceedings,” Giwa said in the petition, urging the NBA President not to stand aloof while the judiciary is ridiculed and brought to disrepute.
Giwaz in the letter to the NBA President added, “My trial is now between Asabe Waziri, Joe Agi, SAN, and some persons in the Office of the Chief Judge of FCT who have now weaponized the court against me.
“The Honourable Court has refused to recuse itself from my case even in the light of my complaints of loss of confidence in the Honourable Court and His Lordship descending into the arena by reading its ruling without me arguing my application before him at the last sittings.”
Giwa had in a motion on notice dated October 27, 2025, asked Justice Onwuegbuzie to recuse himself from his trial, stressing that he has no chance of getting justice before the court. But the judge dismissed the motion, insisting that he was not biased as alleged.
The police had accused Giwa of forging the letterhead paper of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Awa Kalu.
But Awa Kalu, in a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, formally distanced himself from the allegation of forgery and impersonation against Giwa.
However, despite the letter, the police went ahead to press charges against Giwa.
Kalu, in the letter dated May 30, 2025, had said his letterhead was never forged and that he had not at anytime lodged any complaint with the police about forgery of his document.
He equally clarified that he neither filed a complaint nor reported Giwa for allegedly forging his firm’s letterhead.