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Onwuchekwa, Nnewi
THE execution of late Chief A.O. Ezeoke’s Will in Nkpologwu, Aguata Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State has landed the family in court.
The head of the late Ezeoke’s family, Dr Sylvester Ezeoke, has dragged the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese in Anambra State, the Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor to court over his father’s Will.
He alleged that the Bishop, as a principal executor of his father’s Will, was playing a game suggestive that he did not want to divest his father’s property to the beneficiaries.
Ezeoke explained that they were experiencing “intimidation, oppression, injustices, disregard for the rule of law, character assassination, confiscation of properties that lawfully belong to me and my family, threat to my life and that of my brother, Ezeoke Celestine Mmaduchukwu,” in the hands of the Bishop through his agents led by one Rev. Fr. (Dr) Edwin Sunday Chukwujekwu Obiora, with regards to executing their late father’s Will.
But in a statement yesterday made available to newsmen in Awka, eight of the late Ezeoke’s family members absolved the Bishop of any wrong doing concerning the execution of their late father’s Will.
Those who signed the statement included Mrs Ngozi Nwachukwu, Dr (Mrs) Chinyere Aginam, Uchenna Ezeoke, Mrs Amarachukwu Esomugha, Mr Calistus Ezeoke, Mrs Njideka Emenobi, Mr Elochukwu Ezeoke and Miss Nonso Ezeoke.
They said: “We wish to state categorically that those allegations recently published in the in the national daily (not The Sun) and other media outlets are totally false, and are maliciously intended to malign the Bishop and his legal adviser, Rev Fr (Dr) Edwin Obiora. Dr Sylvester Ezeoke did not speak on our behalf as a representative of late Chief Ezeoke’s family.
They affirmed their support for Bishop Ezeokafor and Rev Fr (Dr) Obiora to continue the work they were doing to execute their late father’s Will within the confines of the law. They said the Bishop and Obiora had neither oppressed nor intimidated them.
When contacted, the bishop’s lawyer, Obiora, said the matter was in court and that it would be prejudicial to discuss it in the press.
