Mr Osigwe said the appointment endorsed corruption, cast the bar in a bad light, and “makes a mockery of the government’s fight against corruption.”
“Again, I hold that the respondents have failed woefully in tilting the scale of evidential weight in their favour,” Ms Abdulmalik said.
HEDA, in its petition, which was copied to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, also cited several corruption allegations against Mr Malami.
Mr Stephen Oronsaye was accused by the EFCC of fraud to the tune of the N190 million.
This paper found that Mr Buhari’s government was almost promptly consumed by the sceptre of endemic corruption and political avarice that he set out to combat in the first place.
Mr Tahir was the pension accountant when Stephen Oronsaye was the HoS between 2009 and 2010.
The appellate court reduced his term of imprisonment from 14 to seven on the grounds that he was a first time offender.
Messrs Aregbesola and Nababa made the allegation in their joint counter affidavit in opposition to Mr Maina’s originating motion.
Mr Maina claimed the failure to seek medical treatment for his ailment led to his incapacitation and health deterioration.
Former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Mr Maina is currently serving his jail term at Kuje Prison for embezzlement.
