The Abia State High Court, sitting in Umuahia, on Thursday, adjourned till February 16 a N1.5 billion defamation suit filed by ex-Gov. Theodore Orji against a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Apugo.
The plaintiff was represented by his counsel, Chief Henry Balogu, while the defendant was absent, and no counsel appeared for him when the case came up for hearing on Thursday.
The trial judge, Justice A. O. Chijioke, while observing the delay in the process that had been filed since 2020, ordered that the defendant must appear in court on the next adjourned date.
