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Share The Benue State Magistrate Court sitting in Makurdi has adjourned till January 29, 2021 to hear the criminal case initiated by Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom against a legal practitioner in the state. The magistrate, Vincent Kor, after listening to the argument of counsels of both parties adjourned the case to January to hear the preliminary objections against the suit. Governor Ortom had on Friday filed direct criminal charges against the Makurdi-based lawyer, Barrister Peter Ocha Ulegede, over alleged offences bordering on false, malicious and libellous publication. Governor Ortom...

Ortom drags Makurdi-based lawyer to court for alleged libelous publication On By Peter Duru, Makurdi Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has dragged a Makurdi based lawyer, Mr Ocha Ulegede to court for alleged false, malicious and libellous publication. Governor Ortom in the suit averred that Mr Ulegede allegedly assassinated his character and damaged his reputation in a social publication he forwarded to the WhatsApp group of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Makurdi Branch on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. According to him, in the forwarded post, Mr Ulegede alleged that during a stakeholder ...