Alleged defamation: Gov Bello’s aide, Edward Onoja sues PDP youth leader, demands N100m

The Chief of Staff (CoS) to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Mr Edward Onoja, has filed a lawsuit in the State high court against the national coordinator of Peoples Democratic Party Youth Frontier (PDPNYF), Comrade Austin Okai.

Okai made this known to DAILY POST on Friday in a brief telephone interview.

According to the PDPNYF coordinator, Edward Onoja asked the court to mandate him to pay the sum of one hundred million naira for alleged defamation of character.

Recall that there has been an existing lawsuit between comrade Austin Okai and Kogi state government pending at the court since April 2017 over the same subject.

However, unmoved by the lawsuit, Okai dismissed the latest litigation by the Kogi CoS as “attempts by a drowning man to seek survival.”

He denied defaming the Mr Onoja and insisted that what Mr Onoja described as defamation was simply an advocacy for the Kogi state government to do what was right.

His words: “The latest attempt by Onoja is diversionary and an attempt to silence our advocacy for a better state, which Onoja principal, Governor Yahaya Bello has denied Kogi people since 2015.

“I am glad he has gone to court, we’ll meet him in court, but we can’t be intimidated.”