Progressives Congress, APC, and his party in the N10 billion defamation suit filed against them by the state governor, Samuel Ortom.
In the preliminary objection earlier filed by Oshiomole’s lawyer, Damian Dodo, SAN, on the 6th November 2019, the APC National Chairman and his party had contended that they were resident in Abuja and the press conference which gave rise to the suit was also held in Abuja and the Court therefore lacked territorial jurisdiction to entertain the suit as it ought to have been instituted at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory.
But Ortom’s lawyer, Samuel Irabor argued that by Order 3, Rule 4 of the Benue State High Court Civil Procedure Rules, 2007, a suit can be commenced where one of the Defendants is shown to be resident or carries out business within the jurisdiction of the court.
Justice Ityonyinman also agreed with further argument of Irabor that the press release was published in Vanguard newspaper of 27th July, 2018 and the said newspaper circulated within the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court and that these averments in the governor’s statement of claims were never controverted by the Defendants in their statements of defence and are deemed admitted by virtue of Section 123 of the Evidence Act, 2011.
The court thereafter dismissed the preliminary objection for lacking in merit before adjourning the suit to February 14, 2020 for hearing to commence.
10billion is too small. If the death by hanging begins with the chairman of All Propagandist Congress, hate speech will cease. There will be no one to forgive criminals.
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