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Okah brothers make good on their threat, slam N5bn suit on Jonathan

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has finally been sued by Okah brothers, Henry and Charles over allegation of assassination he levelled against them.

The leaders of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), jointly filed a N5 billion lawsuit against the former president, making good on an earlier threat to sue him over his allegation, that the duo who are standing trial for alleged terrorism in Nigeria and South Africa, plan to assassinate him.

The Okah brothers have instructed their lawyers, First Law Solicitors, to sue the former president and his media aide, Ikechukwu Eze, who released the assassination threat statement on behalf Jonathan recently.

The content of the law suit is contained in a statement issued and released by their counsel and signed by the Senior Partner, Timipa Jenkins Okponipere, Esq.

The brothers said while filing the suit that the entire contents of the assassination statement issued by Eze was against their fundamental right to fair hearing as secured and guaranteed to them by the extant provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 2004.

Part of the statement entitled, “Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Niger Delta Avengers”, reads, “We have been consulted and our professional services were subsequently retained by Messrs. Henry Emomotimi Okah and Charles Tonbra Okah (whom we shall hereinafter, jointly refer to as our ‘clients’).

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“Our clients have instructed us to file a Five Billion Naira (N5bn) lawsuit against former President Goodluck Jonathan and one Ikechukwu Eze who released a press statement on behalf of the former president on or about August 8, 2016.

“It is our client’s brief that, the entire contents of the said statement breached their fundamental right to fair hearing as secured and guaranteed to them by the extant provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act 2004.

“Secondly, one of our clients, Mr. Charles Okah has reacted to and corroborated the recent revelations made by one Cynthia Whyte regarding the unsuccessful attempts made by former President Jonathan to lobby the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to endorse the former president’s 2015 failed re-election bid.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

 

 

 

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