The Ebonyi Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chika Nwoba, has been docked before a Magistrate Court sitting in Abakaliki, for alleged publication of false, malicious and defamatory publications on social media, against a federal lawmaker from the state.
Nwoba allegedlly portrayed the Federal Lawmaker, Chinedu Ogah, who represents Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, as being unfit to he in the House of Representatives
The prosecution alleged that the publications also portrayed Ogah as greedy and corrupt, a terrorist, land grabber, deceiver, timid and non-achiever.
Nwoba’s Counsel, Luke Nkwegu, who urged the Court to strike out the six-count charge, emphasized that the they were brought against Nwoba by the police in bad faith to keep him behind bars and argued that the Cybercrimes Prohibition Law of the state, under which Nwoba was charged, was not gazetted and unknown to law.
Nwoba was was earlier docked before the Court on. for allegedlly publishing false information on Facebook against the State Ebonyi Governor, Dave Umahi.
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