“Withdraw defamatory posts or face litigation” — May Edochie warns ex-lawyer, Yinka Theisen

May Edochie, the estranged woman of Nollywood histrion Yul Edochie, has issued ineligible threats against her erstwhile lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, and Olayinka “Yinka Theisen” Ajakaiye, the ex-partner of Yul’s elder brother, Linc Edochie.

Through her caller ineligible representatives, LawGray Partners, May served some parties with cease-and-desist notices, accusing them of cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and publishing defamatory statements against her.

In the notices, posted connected her verified Facebook page, May demanded contiguous nationalist apologies, afloat retractions of each derogatory remarks, and damages moving into N1 cardinal against Mr Ugwuonye and N500 cardinal against Ms Theisen.

Her lawyers besides warned that nonaccomplishment to comply wrong 48 hours would permission nary enactment but to prosecute civilian and transgression litigation.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Ugwuonye of Due Process Advocates (DPA) was May’s lawyer successful her ongoing divorcement proceedings with Yul.

However, successful July, Mr Ugwuonye announced that his instrumentality steadfast had withdrawn from representing May, citing harassment, cyberbullying, and different attacks from May’s instrumentality base, popularly known arsenic “May Nation.”

“Withdraw each posts oregon publications made by you, oregon caused to beryllium made by you, concerning our lawsuit connected each mean utilized successful perpetrating these defamatory and malicious acts.

“Take enactment that nonaccomplishment to comply with the demands herein shall permission america with nary different enactment but to sail done the oversea of litigation, some civilian and criminal, to enforce our client’s rights, question tenable compensation, and guarantee her ineligible extortion from your continued menacing actions, without further announcement to you,” said May successful the cease-and-desist notice.

Mr Ugwuonye’s reply

Reacting to May’s demands, Mr Ugwuonye stated successful a Facebook post on Thursday that she appeared confused and nether stress, which helium described arsenic unfortunate.

Emeka Ugwuonye (CREDIT: Facebook DPA household instrumentality clinic)

He added that, contempt their disagreement, helium genuinely wished helium could enactment her, arsenic helium disliked seeing her successful specified a troubled state.

“However, I bash person to question wherefore she shared that missive publicly. Her actions led thousands of her followers to attack, defame, and bully me.

This unsocial could supply grounds for maine to writer her for damages, but I’ve decided I won’t instrumentality ineligible enactment against May unless she sues maine first. I dislike seeing her successful this predicament.

All I wanted was for her to support herself from May Nation. Assuming the members of May Nation were helping her is the top mistake she could make, nary different personage would beh...