A Benue State High Court has dismissed a defamation case filed against the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and a Nigerian human rights activist, Sesugh Akume.
Ortom had instituted a N150million libel suit against Sowore and Akume.
The activist had accused the governor of misappropriating local government funds, an allegation he claimed reduced him in the eyes of right-thinking people. Delivering judgement on Tuesday, Justice AI Ityonyiman held among other things that no libelous words were established by the plaintiff and no reasonable cause of action was found.
“Governor Ortom in his own matter with suit number MHC/326/2021 alleged that I had, indeed, stated that he makes deductions from local government funds in the Joint Account at will, and thereby besmirched his good name and standing in society as an upright man who cannot temper with local government funds. He also joined Mr Sowore, as publisher of one of the news media that reported my statement.
“The court found his allegations flimsy. The plaintiff is at liberty to appeal the judgement. We shall be waiting. Much gratitude is here expressed to my attorney, the indefatigable of learned counsel, Moses Lubem Ukpo, Esq., for his steadfastness, unmatched legal industry, and firm belief in the course of justice.”
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