Governor Adams Oshiomhole of
Edo State, on Monday, denied reports that he impregnated a 16- year old girl.
News of the People Magazine, a publication by Dockland
Communications Limited, had last year published a story alleging that the
governor was dating an under-aged girl and had impregnated her.
Oshiomhole subsequently sued Dockland Communications Limited, asking
for an unspecified amount of money as damages for the publication.
While testifying as first prosecution witness in a suit between
him and Dockland Communications Limited, in a Benin High Court on Monday, the
governor said that the story, with the headline ‘Oshiomhole’s Sex Power
Exposed: Impregnates young girl six months after death of wife’, which was
published on the front page of the magazine last year, impugned his character.
The governor told the court that he was alleged in the
publication to have bought the girl an SUV; and that he was also interfering in
the decisions of authorities at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, because of
the girl.
Oshiomhole said he was seeking damages because the story caused
his family serious psychological trauma six months after the death of his wife.