A law firm, Indemnity Partners, has dissociated itself from a document in respect of the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Kogi Central Senatorial district, Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and her husband High Chief Emmanuel Oritsejolomi Uduaghan.
In the document, said to signed by the politician’s legal counsel, Indemnity Partners, Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan had allegedly sought N10 billion damages from her husband.
The letter emerged amid controversy over the accusation by the Kogi State Government that she was reintroducing terrorism into the political scene in the state.
But in a letter by the same law firm, Indemnity Partners, signed by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, B. C. Igwilo, it dismissed the document as “inauthentic and of dubious origin”.
The firm urged the public to ignore the document in circulation in its entirety.
“We categorically distance ourselves from the purported letter and its alleged contents’’, the statement added.
The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to a letter trending on social media purporting to have issued from our law firm in respect of our client and her husband.
“We categorically distance ourselves from the purported letter and its alleged contents.
“That letter is inauthentic and of dubious origin.
“Accordingly, we urge the discerning public to ignore it in its entirety”.
In the disputed letter, Akpoti-Uduaghan had threatened legal action and demanded N10 billion compensation from her husband for “breach of promise of marriage, poisoning, foeticide”, among other allegations.
According to the letter addressed to Uduaghan, the Alema of Warri Kingdom, Delta State, she said the chief was meant to divorce his previous wife in order to pave way for a marriage to her, which he refused to do.
The letter was purportedly signed by Igwilo for Indemnity Partners and dated 19th November 2020.
