Former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly RT. Hon. Eugene Odo has threatened to file an action in court against the State Chairman of the party Dr. Ben Nwoye.
In a letter titled ‘Notice to Sue for Defamation’ from his lawyers, RT. Hon Odo demanded a public and recorded apology from the Chairman before August 20, 2021 or face Defamation ‘charges.
The letter dated August 4, 2021, was signed by Ozor Ochiagha Ugochukwu Esq for Fountain Nominees Chambers.
The chairman is accused of inviting some APC party members from all over Enugu State, on or about the 3rd day of August, 2021 “and openly denigrited the reputation of our client when you referred to him as a thief in the following words:
“…the thief who attempted to steal our democratic process is also a Wawa man, in our place aneni onye-oshi makpute ehu na ani, and today is not the day he started, because when Sullivan Chime was sick, was not feeling well, even though he was a great governor, going towards the end of his term the same thief connived with some members of the House of Assembly of Enugu State and attempted to disgrace a wonderful strong serving governor…
“..they attempted to impeach him two times and he was disgraced, he was himself impeached, that was a case of back to sender…within a short time the thief came in with his car and security men, when he was asked…he went to the thief’s vehicle, the thief’s PA brought sensitive materials …
”..It is not difficult for any right thinking/ordinary person, and there were many of them in that assembly, to know that your innuendoes were referring to our client. You called him a thief severally and accused him of attempts to truncate “our democratic process.
“The description you made are calculated to lower our client in the estimation of right thinking men, cause him to be shunned or avoided. You exposed our client to hatred, contempt and ridicule.
“You intentionally conveyed an imputation on him which is disparaging and injurious to him in his profession as a lawyer and in his calling as a politician.
“By your utterances before a mammoth crowd of party faithful, you indeed tarnished our client’s image and brought him to odium and opprobrium, as the crowd were chorusing thief! Thief!! and more disparaging words as you rained vituperations on our client.
“You are aware that none of the appellations “thief” nor “steal our democratic process” is true or identifiable with our client. To make matters worse, the video clips of slanderous utterances against our client has gone viral. “Since then, it has become a refrain for your supporters to refer to our client as a thief on the party’s Whatsapp platform.”
“We are by this letter demanding that you summon a similar meeting of the party members as the one of 3rd August, and in the proposed meeting you will repudiate your utterances against our client and also render a videoed apology to our client for this incalculable damages you have caused his hard earned reputation.
“You have from the date of the delivery of this letter to you till the 20th day of August, 2021 to effect this show of remorse.
“Take further notice that if by close of work on the 20th aforesaid and you are yet to comply with the foregoing demands, we have a further instruction from our client to take out a writ against you to claim the sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira) only against you as damages for this slander.A stitch in time saves nine.”
Efforts to get comments from the party Chairman Dr. Ben Nwoye failed as his phones were switched off.
EverydayNews however promises to publish his reaction whenever we establish contact with him.
