Joy AnyimFormer member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Robinson Uwak has said that he will not apologise to the member of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu over the allegation of an amorous relationship with his wife, Mrs Keiza Robinson Uwak.
Uwak who was reacting to a letter dated July 17, demanding him to tender an apology and retract defamatory remarks he made against Hon. Kalu, said that the allegations are not garnished fables of falsehoods.
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He maintained that the allegations are truthful claims of a man who is desperate to save his life and marriage.
He said: “My attention has been brought to a letter dated July 17, 2022, in which Benjamin Kalu through his lawyers demanded, amongst other things, that I retract alleged defamatory remarks which accused him of having an amorous relationship with my wife, Mrs Keiza Robinson Uwak.
“That he is taking steps to destroy my marriage and using security agents to harass me. That he conspired with my wife who has had two children for me, to poison me.
“I maintain that these statements against Benjamin Kalu are not garnished fables of falsehoods or verisimilitude of reality. They are truthful claims of a man who is desperate to save his life and marriage.
“His continuous amorous relationship with my wife has cost me great pain and emotional distress. Using the instrumentality of privilege and proximity to power, he has used the instrumentality of influence to frustrate and bully me out of marital bliss.”
Uwak in a statement said that he finds the timing of Hon. Kalu’s letter suspicious, as his correspondence comes at a time when the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges is about to open an investigation into the propriety of Hon. Kalu’s relationship with his wife.
“His actions are tantamount to an abuse of office, a misuse of his position as Chairman of House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, and a desecration of the National Assembly.
”His attempt to institute an action at this time is a strategy to create a defence before the Committee that the matter is sub-judice and therefore out of the jurisdiction of the House Committee (mentioned above or any other committee of the National Assembly).
“It is important to state here that such perverse logic does not take into account that the House Committee is looking into his misconduct rather than the statements which he has attributed to me. These are two completely separate issues that may relate to the same set of facts.
“It is therefore advisable, therefore, to withdraw from the said relationship and apologise to me immediately, ” he stated.
