Tobi Adebayo
An All Progressives Congress aspirant in the forthcoming guber election in Anambra State, Senator Andy Uba has demanded an apology from Heritage Bank over a protest held by its staff at his residence.
A video showing some staff of the bank, protesting at the entrance of Uba’s residence over an alleged loan he owed, had gone viral on Tuesday.
In a letter signed by his legal counsel, Ahmed Raji (SAN), Senator Uba described the actions of Heritage Bank’s staff as shameful and embarrassing.
He also demanded an apology in five national dailies and threatened to sue if the bank did not comply.
”Despite your veiled denial, the deliberateness of your staffs’ action is founded and the intent, to wit: – bring our client to public opprobrium shame, ridicule, scorn etc, is glaring for all to see.
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”This is more so, as you deliberately picked the rather inauspicious period immediately preceding the forthcoming gubernatorial primary election of the All Progressives Congress [APC] for Anambra State slated for the 26th of June 2021, wherein our client is the leading candidate to clinch his Party’s ticket, to stage this smear campaign against him.”
”Surely, the damage occasioned to our client by your calculated but ill-advised action is unquantifiable. However, our client will be relieved if a public apology, unreserved, is tendered by you and published in at least five national daily newspapers within a day of receipt of this letter and payment of N5b in damages,” he said.
”If not, we have our client’s further instructions to seek redress against you in a court of law for the same. Kindly be advised.
”We hope that this bank will take benefit of the olive branch offered in this letter; the gamble, otherwise, is yours to suffer,” the letter read in part.
