It urged Nigerians to ignore the document in its entirety
A law firm, Indemnity Partners, has dissociated itself from a document in respect of the senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections for Kogi State Central Senatorial district, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, and the Alema of Warri Kingdom, Emmanuel Oritsejolomi Uduaghan.
A trending document purportedly from the law firm had claimed the politician sought for N10 billion damages from her husband before they got married.
However, the law firm in a statement sent to SaharaReporters and signed by B. C. Igwilo, SAN said that the document was inauthentic and of dubious origin.
It urged Nigerians to ignore the document in its entirety.
The statement read, “We are solicitors for Mrs Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Our attention has been drawn to a letter trending on social media purporting to have been 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.”
The PDP had earlier raised alarm over alleged conspiracy by the Kogi State government led by Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cause harm to the life, reputation and ambition of its candidates ahead the 2023 elections.
The party in a letter to the police, the army and the State Security Services alleged that its candidates faced an undue and unprecedented level of persecution, intimidation and attacks against their persons as well as their close political associates since their emergence.
The PDP added that it had uncovered plans to plant guns, ammunition and other incriminating weapons at the home of its candidate.