Why Sowore’s lawyer is in prison – Ned Nwoko
Former federal lawmaker and socialite, Prince Ned Nwoko has debunked as false and a deliberate attempt to get public “sympathy”, the news making the rounds that a lawyer, Abubakar Marshal was arrested by the police in Abuja for filling a matter against him in court.
Rather, Prince Nwoko said the embattled lawyer was picked up by police and later remanded in prison for misconduct.
Nwoko who spoke through his lawyer, Bryan Ukaegbu, in a statement on Saturday, called on the public to discountenance the news published on some quarters, as fake news primarily aimed at misinforming the public.
Nwoko’s lawyer explained that Mr. Sowore was earlier invited by the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to answer to a petition bordering on “criminal acts of defamation of character, injurious falsehood, criminal intimidation, cyberstalking”, written against him by lawyers of Prince Nwoko.
According to Ukaegbu, Sowore’s lawyer, “Abubakar Marshal willingly and knowingly decided to aid his client to run away from justice when against the ethics of the legal profession he decided to stand surety for his client, Sowore”.
Ukaegbu explained that Marshal subsequently refused to produce his client to help police investigation which led to him (Marshal) being taken in by the police and subsequently arraigned in court.
