A Nigerian career ambassador, Ms Lilian Onoh, has concluded her defense on Thursday in a libel suit filed against her by a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Zuba division of Abuja.
Onyeama had accused Lilian Onoh, a career diplomat with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of waging a vendetta war against him.
The ex-Minister sued Ms Onoh for libel before Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya
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A Nigerian career ambassador, Ms Lilian Onoh, has concluded her defense on Thursday in a libel suit filed against her by a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Zuba division of Abuja.
Onyeama had accused Lilian Onoh, a career diplomat with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of waging a vendetta war against him.
The ex-Minister sued Ms Onoh for libel before Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya.
However, Ms Onoh, a former Nigerian ambassador to Namibia and Jamaica and daughter of the late Christian Onoh, an erstwhile governor of old Anambra State, denied the allegations.
Onyeama’s lawyer, Agada Elachi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), while cross-examining Ms Onoh on Thursday, said, “it is evident from your testimony that this is a personal vendetta against the claimant (Mr Onyeama).”
The senior lawyer also asked Ms Onoh if she was investigated by the Foreign Affairs Ministry concerning an allegation of financial misappropriation.
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NEWSEx-Nigerian Ambassador to Jamaica, Onoh closes defence in former Minister Onyeama’s libel suitPublished on March 7, 2024By Fadehan Oyeyemi
A Nigerian career ambassador, Ms Lilian Onoh, has concluded her defense on Thursday in a libel suit filed against her by a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Zuba division of Abuja.
Onyeama had accused Lilian Onoh, a career diplomat with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of waging a vendetta war against him.
The ex-Minister sued Ms Onoh for libel before Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya.
However, Ms Onoh, a former Nigerian ambassador to Namibia and Jamaica and daughter of the late Christian Onoh, an erstwhile governor of old Anambra State, denied the allegations.
Onyeama’s lawyer, Agada Elachi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), while cross-examining Ms Onoh on Thursday, said, “it is evident from your testimony that this is a personal vendetta against the claimant (Mr Onyeama).”
The senior lawyer also asked Ms Onoh if she was investigated by the Foreign Affairs Ministry concerning an allegation of financial misappropriation.
In her response, Ms Onoh said Onyeama, as minister, vigorously pursued personal vengeance against her because her sister divorced the ex-minister.
“Geoffrey Onyeama has been pursuing a vendetta against me because my sister divorced him due to his mental hereditary insanity.
“Onyeama spent six years destroying my career because my sister divorced him because of his unhinged psychiatric problem,” Ms Onoh told the court during a tense hearing on Thursday as she testified via Zoom from her base in the United States of America.
She was led in her defense by her lawyer, Monday Ejeh.
Responding to the fraud allegation by Onyeama, Ms Onoh said contrary to a media publication that she had been sacked from service, the ex-minister did not set up any investigative panel to probe the allegation.
“Mr. Onyeama and the Permanent Secretary (Gabriel Aduda) conspired and published lies in Sahara Reporters.”