Defamation: Former Imo Gov, Achike Udenwa demands N5b from Kenneth Okonkwo

By Chidi Nkwopara Former Imo State governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, has demanded N5 billion from a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kenneth Okonkwo, over the alleged defamatory remarks he made recently on a national television programme. Udenwa made the demand in a three-page letter, CSAN/GC/26/25, dated June 11, 2026, addressed to Kenneth Okonkwo and signed by his lawyer, Chief Soronnadi A. Njoku, SAN. Part of the letter read: “Most regrettably, your defamatory statement against him (Udenwa), accusing him of illegally securing money from aspirants by compulsion and violence, or wrongly and illegally obtaining money from those aspirants by compulsion or violence, which sta...