Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and her husband, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has given the Nigerian Senate’s debuty Chief Whip, Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi 24 hours to retract comments he made against Mr. Akpoti-Uduaghan.
In a letter entitled, ‘Defamatory statements against Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’, and sent to Nwaebonyi by Uduaghan’s lawyers, the family threatened to drag the lawmaker to court for failure to apologies through the same means he allegedly defamed them.
On his recent interview on television, Nwaebonyi said that the suspended Natasha, who represents Kogi central in the national assembly, should not count herself among Nigeria’s most beautiful women to warrant claims of sexual harassment.
Nwaebonyi stated this on Wednesday in an interview with News Central TV where he also alleged that Natasha had a history of making accusations to manipulate situations in her favour.
He went on to say, “She accused Reno Omokri of sexual harassment during the time of Goodluck Jonathan as president when the young man was already in U.S. attending to national issues.
“But, unlucky to her, she didn’t know that this young man was outside the country. Upon a slightest provocation, she will come up with allegation of sexual harassment.”
He added, “even her present husband, she married him out of something like this. She threatened to sue the man. I have a letter circulated over the world that the man should pay her N10,000,000,000.00 (Ten Billion Naira) or marry her under duress. So the marriage was under duress. A product of blackmail…”
“And without going into her character, ask Senator Natasha how many husbands has she had in her life at the age of 47 or 45,” he said.
The lawyers in the letter noted that alleged defamatory statements made by Nwaebonyi were widely circulated by users, of other social media platforms like Facebook, instagram and many more within and outside Nigeria with the intention of damaging the reputation of their clients.
The letter reads in part: The said defamatory statements uttered by you in the TV Programme under reference were words which directly deferred to our clients and their natural and ordinary meaning were understood by right thinking members of society to respectively mean the following:
CHIEF EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN
That the said Chief is the victim of marital blackmail and not duly married to his wife as a result of his love for her.
SENATOR NATASHA AKPOTI- UDUAGHAN
That the distinguished Senator serially blackmails men with allegations of sexual harassment.
That the said Chief is a bozo who is incapable of making his own decisions being a person living under matrimonial blackmail.
That the said Chief has no self-esteem and human dignity being a person married under duress.
That the distinguished Senator is vain and has an over-estimated opinion of her own beauty.
That the distinguished Senator needs to be clamped down in order to defend and protect men from her blackmail activities.
That the distinguished Senator married her husband under duress having threatened to sue her husband for the sum of N10,000,0CO,000.00 (Ten Billion Naira) and upon such threat, her husband had to marry her.
That the distinguished Senator is not married to her husband out of love for him.
That the distinguished Senator wrecked the previous marriage and family of her husband.
That the distinguished Senator has had many husbands in her lifetime.
That the distinguished Senator is not a person of high ethical and moral standing
Emmanuel Uduaghan is a leader, high chief and philanthropist, known for upholding cherished values of the Nigerian society to the admiration of nany.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is a successful Nigerian politician, opinion moulder, defender of the needy, efficient wife and mother well admired at home and abroad.
Since you uttered your said defamatory words that were widely aired, some family members, friends, political and business associates of our clients now view them with a strange level of disdain and distrust.
Our clients have been deeply embarrassed by the extent and effect of your false and malicious words. Consequentiy, we hereby demand a written apology from you within 14 days from the date of your receipt of this letter.
The apology should be widely circulated. It must, in particular, be aired on News Central TV and published by various social media platforms which published your defamatory words.
Failing a satisfactory response from you, our instruction is to initiate the necessary legal process to seek redress for our cients. Please be informed.
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