When three judges I disagreed with apologized to me in chambers

Barrister Mumini Adebimpe Jimoh, SAN is the Kwara State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) who was conferred with the prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) last year. In this interview with ACTING EDITOR, MUMINI ABDULKAREEM, the legal luminary talks about his most dramatic moment in court. Excerpts:
I have had a lot of dramatic moments but there was one that I consider to be very memorable. You see, I was in court with the learned SAN, Yusuf Olaolu Ali sometimes ago in Ilorin here. I was appearing at the court of Appeal Ilorin in a case before a judge. The experience that I had that day became a matter of reference till today. What happened was that after the learned Senior Advocate has made his submissions and urged them to set aside that judgment which I was to defend. But the three panel of judges at the Court of Appeal were against me when I rose up to disagree with their position on the matter. They were not happy that I contradicted their position. One of them, the late Justice Muyi Okunola pointed at me and said “look Mumini if you’re going to be anything in this profession, we’ll make you one. We all agreed on a position and you are saying a different thing”. But I maintained and reiterated my stand that I still believe that I’m saying the right thing. At the end of the day when judgment came out, I won. But the panel then asked the then Attorney-General of the State who is now SAN, Titus Ashaolu to invite me to their chamber and ask him to come with me. When I went to them, they said they apologise very seriously and admitted on that day, I was right and the three of them were wrong. It was a very funny case and quite dramatic to me because I found myself all alone in court and everybody who was on that case went against me. All the angles I tried to argue it from met a brick wall as they insisted that I was wrong. Then they now said that I should admit that I was actually wrong that day in court but I said I leave that to you (them). Later they said why I am proving so stubborn but I say I’m not stubborn except that I cannot say that. After two weeks and the judgment was delivered, I won the case and they called me to apologized that they were all wrong and I was the only person that was right. They now confessed to me that before they came to court that day, they have not taken time to read the record properly and it appeared I have mastered the record and knew what I was saying. This was around 1995 or thereabout.