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| Mr. Frank Okon |
By Nse Peter
It is
confirmed that Barr. Andem Ndem has filed a lawsuit at Abuja high court against
his former client, Mr. Frank Okon, a former PDP aspirant in Akwa Ibom State who
is still in court challenging the 2011 election of Godswill Akpabio as the
governor of the state.
Mr. Frank Okon confirmed this in a terse statement
posted personally by him in Ibom Forum, an Internet discussion group hoisted
under the Yahoo! platform.
“Just a
line to intimate all, that my dear friend, brother, compatriot and erstwhile
but terminated legal representative in my governorship legal case against INEC
and 2 others, Barrister Andem Ndem, have instituted a case against me at the
Abuja High Court 2,” Frank Okon says in the statement posted last Thursday, 18
April, 2013 at about 10: 55p.m Nigerian time.
Although
Frank Okon did not expressly say what the dispute was with his former lawyer
Andem Ndem, it could be deduced from his public statement that it may be about settlement
of legal fees from court case(s) Okon instituted against Godswill Akpabio’s
re-election.
Okon admits
in the statement, “I am owing Barrister Andem Ndem & Co N2.2m (Two Million,
Two Hundred Thousand Naira only) for their services as per my written agreement
with them before the outset of the case, an amount which is ready for them to
pick up anytime they are ready”, and went further to say that he has written to
the Nigeria Bar Association to investigate his former lawyer for ‘professional
misconduct’.
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