Former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of Oyo State, JCI Senator Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo, SAN, has issued a detailed response to allegations made against him by Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja, whom he described as the “self-styled founder and ingenious purveyor of the roguish Blue Silk Rank award.”
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In a statement dated January 22, 2026, and released from Abuja, Adebayo categorically denied having any connection to the current travails of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, while revealing the circumstances that led to his estrangement from Dr. Jaja.
According to Adebayo, he never knew or met Dr. Jaja prior to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet inauguration.
“It is true that shortly after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated his cabinet, Dr. Jaja whom I never knew or met prior to that time reached out to me after he read my interview published in some major newspapers relating to my commendation of the appointment of Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN as the Honourable Attorney-General and Minister for Justice as a very fitting and a round peg in a round hole appointment,” Adebayo stated.
According to the Senior Advocate, Dr. Jaja told him that he was wrongly removed as the Chairman of the Copyright Council by a former Attorney-General of the Federation, and therefore sought his assistance in facilitating a meeting with the incumbent Honourable Attorney-General and Minister of Justice.
“I did just that,” Adebayo said, adding that “Dr. Jaja’s complaints were looked into and found to be untrue and unmeritorious.”
Adebayo revealed that Dr. Jaja was initially “very appreciative” of his assistance and intervention, leading to his nomination as a Fellow of an Association called ALDRAP.
“Furthermore, he wrote a Collection of Essays in my honour and even brought the dummies (Hard Copy and Paper cover) of the Book to me, but same could not be published because I refused to accede to Dr. Jaja’s request that I should give him funds to do the publication,” Adebayo disclosed.
He explained his position to Dr. Jaja: “I told him that if truly the collection of the essays is a book in my honour, he should source for money to publish and realise same during the launch and presentation of the book to the public.”
According to Adebayo, “That refusal to mobilise funds for him to publish the book was my initial ‘sin and undoing’ which Dr. Jaja never forgive till date.”
Adebayo revealed that his second offense was his public campaign against what he characterized as Dr. Jaja’s fraudulent Blue Silk Rank award scheme.
“Furthermore, when Dr. Jaja was using the Blue Silk rank award to dupe and extort money from the gullibles and the unsuspecting members of the public, I warned him to desist from that intellectual fraud road path, but all my appeals and advice to him fell on his deaf ears,” he stated.
The Senior Advocate made serious allegations about Dr. Jaja’s character and motivations.
“Dr. Jaja has inordinate, insatiable and rabid lust for money and avarice for wealth. He believes in cutting corners and getting rich quickly by all means,” Adebayo alleged.
In order to protect unsuspecting members of the legal profession and the public, Adebayo said he launched a comprehensive public education effort.
“In order to save the gullible and unsuspecting members of the legal profession and the public from becoming preys and victims to Dr. Jaja’s greedy and fraudulent schemes, I embarked on massive awareness and enlightenment campaigns across various WhatsApp groups and social media to expose the Sole and Lone Ranger contrivance of Dr. Jaja,” he stated.
He described the Blue Silk award operation as Dr. Jaja “merely masquerading and shrouding a non-existing body with no traceable physical address as an ‘Institute’, all with an intent to dupe and defraud people.”
According to Adebayo, “The enlightenment and awareness campaign that I embarked upon to save members of the public from falling victims to the antics and ploys of Dr. Jaja to extort and dupe our people through the fake, ingenious and contrived Blue Silk Rank Award thus became my second albatross and nemesis with Dr. Jaja who saw my efforts as a direct attack on his cash cow project and steaming hot pot of soup.”
Addressing Dr. Jaja’s allegations linking him to Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN’s current legal challenges, Adebayo issued a strong denial.
“In Dr. Jaja’s extremely pedestrian, petulant and preposterous piece under reference, he attributed to me Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN’s present travails in Nigeria which, however, emanated from a United Kingdom’s court judgement over a property saga,” Adebayo said.
Adebayo revealed that he and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN had been reconciled shortly after their disagreement.
“Unknown to the malicious and sadistic Dr. Jaja, the foremost Nigerian legal practitioner, Chief Wole Olanipekun, OFR, CFR, SAN, D. Litt, FNIALS etc had long brokered peace between me and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN and fully reconciled us on the 3rd day after our disagreements broke,” he disclosed.
He emphasized that their disagreement was not personal.
“It is pertinent for me to state that the issues of discord between me and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN were not even personal, but purely on matters of convictions and principles between myself and Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN,” Adebayo explained.
Adebayo stressed his character and approach to conflict.
“I do not keep malice and I will never seek the downfall of any of my fellow human being or gloat over another person’s misfortunes,” he declared.
He then directly addressed Dr. Jaja’s allegations: “It is therefore too elementary and even needless for me to educate the semi-illiterate, uninformed, asinine and unintelligent Dr. Jaja that I have no connection whatsoever with the past and or present travails and ordeals of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN.”
The statement was signed by JCI Senator Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo, SAN, who holds the traditional titles of Asiwaju of Ita-Ege & Idi-Aro, Ward 5, Ibadan South-East Local Government Area, and Agba-Ofin of Orile-Igbon, Surulere Local Government Area, Oyo State.
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