– Refutes Falsehood Reported by Elombah Perspectives
NIGERIA’s ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye, is back at
his Washington DC duty post after a month-long triennial leave, sharpedgenews.com can authoritatively report.
Contrary to resumed misinformation on the internet, spearheaded by the dubious, Washington-based attorney, Ephraim Emeka Ugwonye, who works in concert with Charles Elombah, another reprobate United Kingdom-based lawyer known for using his cyber platform at Elombah Perspectives to manipulate facts at his disposal, the ambassador was never re-called or queried by authorities in Nigeria.
Elombah Perspectives had resumed its deliberate fabrications through outright misrepresentations of a litigation instituted by its financier, Emeka Egwonye, who defrauded the Nigerian embassy in Washington to the tune of 1.5 million US dollars in tax returns paid by the American Internal Revenue Service, by reporting that Mr. Adefuye was recalled and grounded in Abuja.
Sources at the foreign affairs ministry in Abuja, along with sources at the office of the senior special assistant to President Jonathan on foreign affairs, told sharpedgenews.com that Adefuye was not at any time recalled or grounded in Nigeria.
The same sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Adefuye was only on holidays and the president was exceptionally pleased that the ambassador continued to discharge his duties, part of which culminated in the successful hosting of the American secretary of state, Ms. Hillary Clinton in Abuja.
The United Kingdom-based blog claimed in the article that bullies were hired to intimidate Ugwonye, when there no was no evidence of such event anywhere. Credible outfits serving the Nigerian Diaspora community have investigated the various claims of the lawyer over time, and found out that he committed a grievous breach in preying on the vulnerabilities of a mentally challenged individual based in New York, Mr. Carl Umunnah, to smear the ambassador and the image of Nigeria.
Umunnah was the self-described executive of the little known International Human Rights Monitors (not to be confused with the reputable Human Rights Watch) who staged a failed ‘mega protest’ at the Nigerian embassy in Washington last summer. He camped near the gates of the embassy on the day of the protest, shouting and waving the flag of the defunct Biafran republic, a move that observers have described as treasonous. Biafra was the name of the south-eastern region that attempted secession from Nigeria in 1967, but was defeated after a brutal 3-year war.
Rubbishing the resumed strong of lies by Ephraim Emeka Ugwonye, the DC-based attorney whose license to practice law has since been suspended by local authorities in the United States, embassy sources explained that Nigeria’s envoys normally go on periodic leave at the end of every three years.
The ambassador went on leave on July 28, 2012. His holiday was however interrupted while in Nigeria as he had to play a key role in hosting the visiting American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, whom Ugwonye’s propaganda team had alleged would not be visiting Nigeria. His leave had to be extended by one week because of the interruption.
Our source said that Adefuye returned to the United States on August 21, and did not fully resume duties until September 10, even though he was making brief appearances at the embassy prior to that date.
Embassy sources maintain that apart from the anomaly involved in trying to sue the embassy, no writ of summons was ever served on Adefuye. They added that the script narrated in the story by Elombah Perspectives is part of the drama to “enable Ugwonye buy time before finally going to jail for his fraudulent actions.”