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From Scholastica Onyeka, Makurdi
Former Benue North East senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and immediate past chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Chief Mimi Adzape-Orubibi, has raised the alarm over what she termed an orchestrated campaign of calumny against herself and family.
Adzape-Orubibi, who lamented that she has been targeted in a smear campaign for reasons best known to the masterminds, said she would not take it kindly with those involved, as she has directed her lawyers to institute legal action against them.
The former BIRS chairman was reacting to a recent social media publication, which alleged that she abandoned her husband and children in Canada and returned to Nigeria to move in with a Benue-based businessman in Gboko Local Government Area of the state.
The said report claimed that she has been demanding that the businessman must divorce his wife and marry her. The social media report also claimed that the estranged wife of the businessman, who just returned from her trip abroad, met the former senatorial candidate in her matrimonial home in Gboko and threw her out.
Shocked by the allegations in the publication, Adzape-Orubibi said the report was masterminded and spread by desperate foes out to drag her name and that of her family in the mud.
She wondered why anyone would claim that she abandoned her children in Canada to reside in Gboko when she was currently in Canada with her children.
Adzape-Orubibi, who spoke from Canada, said: “It is simply unbelievable, unimaginable falsehood and preposterous for anyone to take to social media to defame my reputation and even drag my children into such outright falsehood, claiming that I abandoned my children and returned to Nigeria to live with a Gboko-based businessman and his wife came and threw me outside.
“As I speak with you, I’ve been in Canada with my family and I am always here with them. So, why fabricate such falsehood against me to smear my personality?
“I know the said businessman and we remain family friends. And it is not right for anyone to try to ridicule me before the public through deliberate falsehood.
“I will not hesitate to seek justice on this matter. I have already given a go-ahead to my lawyers to seek justice for me.”
