Billionaire business mogul Ned Nwoko has slammed a journalist named Azuka Jebose Molokwu with a N2 billion lawsuit for calling him a cultist for marrying virgins.
Jebose responding to an interview in which Nwoko had revealed that he had married all his wives as virgins, had taken to Facebook to bash him, writing:
These statements suggest that Ned is a fetish and a cultist. He is also, by his confession, a sick man-child. I hope his widely respected friends begin to distance themselves from this troubled soul.”
Nwoko’s defamation suit is contained in a writ of summons obtained in Effurun High Court, Delta State on behalf of his counsel, Ikhide Ehighelua, and dated July 13, 2020.
Also included in the suit as the second defendant is Prince Chukwunonso Nwoko who is identified as the employer and sponsor of the first defendant, Jebose, a native of Onicha-Ugbo in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, staying in the United States.
The suit states that both defendants made highly defamatory publications in several online blogs and other social media platforms “calculated to reduce the estimation of the claimant” and damage his reputation in the public.
According to the suit, the malicious publications had continued unabated against the plaintiff in spite of several warnings by his solicitors to the defendants.
Counsel to Nwoko also added that the first defendant defiantly went on social media claiming that the warnings would not deter his defamatory publications, prompting the legal action.
The claimant is also seeking before the court, “a public apology to be published by the defendants in at least two national daily newspapers circulating in Nigeria and social media platforms” as well as an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from making any further defamatory publications against him.
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