Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole has sued a dead journalist Ahmed Asekome and his soft sell news magazine, News of the People, over libel.
In the case No. B/556/2011, between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Dockland Communications Limited, publishers of News of the People magazine, the governor alleged that the content of the publication which was published sometimes last year carried on the front page and page 19 titled “Oshiomhole’s Sex Power Exposed: Impregnates young girl six months after death of wife” was libelous to him.
He told the court presided over by Justice (Mrs.) Efe Ikponmwonba that in the edition, he was also alleged to have bought the girl a jeep; that he was interfering in academics of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma on behalf of the girl, and that he used sexual performance enhancement drugs and that he has done traditional marriage to the alleged girl, adding that the edition which was widely circulated coincided with the preparations of one of his daughter’s wedding.
Asked by the lead prosecuting counsel K. O. Igiebor why he was demanding for damages, the governor who personally testified as PW/1, replied that the said publication caused him and his children serious psychological trauma six months after the death of his wife.
“When I called a brother governor to sponsor my daughter’s wedding, the governor said he was confused, and asked me if I was the one doing the marriage or my daughter, adding that he was reading a magazine which said that he (Oshiomhole) was about getting married to a university student, and that the said wife to be was already pregnant.”
The former Edo correspondent of the News of the People who was said to have written the story Ahmed Asekome died last year after a brief illness.
The case was adjourned to the 25 of June, 2012 .
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