Don’t blame wives over PSquare’s rift, SAN tells public
As the rift between Peter and Paul of PSquare gains
momentum, the group’s lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Festus Keyamo, has
said the wives of the artistes have no hand in it.
He expressed the optimism that the disagreement among them
– including the elder brother, Jude – would be resolved.
A statement
from the Keyamo Chambers as published on PUNCH Newspaper noted that, in
contrast to the public belief, the quarrel was not the fault of any of the
parties – including their wives.
The statement titled The
public feud by the PSquare brothers, on Tuesday evening, appealed that the
public should “refrain from jumping into uninformed conclusions about this
feud.”
The
statement read in part, “As their close friends and lawyers over many years, we
have done our very best to manage their differences over time and very
prominent personalities have been invited in the past to intervene.
“Our
attention has been drawn to the on-going feud between the Psquare brothers in
online, print and electronic media. We have also been inundated with calls from
the media to authenticate the correspondence Peter Okoye sent to our office,
indicating his intention to terminate the contract between the brothers for
various reasons and the online video showing a purported scuffle between the
brothers in our chambers.
“We are
well aware that we have a duty to keep the details of their disagreements
confidential, so we shall say nothing here on the issues at stake. But since
the disagreement is now in the public domain, and our name has been dragged
into the fray, we wish to appeal to members of the public to refrain from
jumping into uninformed conclusions about this feud.
“None of
these talented brothers is at fault. None of them is also wholly justified and
correct in their individual positions. We also wish to state categorically
that, contrary to widely held opinions, none of their wives is at fault. In
fact, the wives have kept their respectable and dignified distances from all
the issues involved. They have never interfered in any way.
“We also
want to state that while all the three brothers may have genuine grievances,
nobody’s life is at risk. All the various incidents that happened in our
chambers (some as late at 12 midnight and 2am and one of which was captured in
the online video) arose out of various meetings that were genuine attempts at
resolving their differences.”
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