Nwaeke’s Allegations: Fubara’s CoS Sues Rivers Ex-HoS for N2bn Damages

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By Kolawole Ojebisi

Edison Ehie, Chief of Staff to Siminalayi Fubara, suspended governor of Rivers, has made true his threat to initiate a litigation over former head of civil service in the state, George Nwaeke.

This is as Ehie filed a N2 billion defamation suit Nwaeke.The second defendant in the suit is Channels Television.

In the suit, Ehie said Nwaeke, in an interview televised by the second defendant on March 29, alleged that he was responsible for the fire that engulfed the Rivers house of assembly complex in October 2023.

The chief of staff said the “false” publication against him by the former head of service caused serious injury to his character and reputation.

“An order for immediate retraction of the said publication and an apology to the claimant by the defendants for the said invidious and libelous publication forthwith and same to be widely publicized in the second defendant’s (Channels TV) television network, another television network and two newspapers with nationwide leadership in Nigeria,” part of the court documents reads.

Ehie prayed the court to issue an order restraining the defendants from further publishing or circulating any malicious information against him.

He asked the court to award him N2 billion as general damages against the defendants.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Jumbo Stephens, a judge at the high court in Port Harcourt, ruled that Nwaeke be served the originating processes in the suit via substituted means.

The judge ruled that the processes should be pasted at the first defendant’s residence in Port Harcourt and published in a national newspaper.

Recall that In October 2023, at the height of the rift between Fubara and his erstwhile ally and current Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, fire razed a section of the Rivers state house of assembly complex in Port Harcourt.

The fire incident occurred as Rivers lawmakers loyal to Wike, plotted to initiate impeachment proceedings against Fubara.

The feud between Fubara and Wike polarised the state’s parliament and eventually sparked a political crisis.

Owing to the crisis, President Bola Tinubu on March 18 declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich state.

The president had suspended Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu; and all members of the Rivers assembly for six months.

Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice admiral, was appointed as the sole administrator.

In March, Nwaeke claimed that Fubara directed Ehie to burn down the Rivers house of assembly.
He alleged that he was at the government house “when a bag of money was handed over to Edison for that operation, though I do not know the amount inside”.

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