Nabila Fash, the ex-wife of Nigerian singer Oritsefemi, has threatened legal action against him for making defamatory statements about her in a recent interview. Oritsefemi, in an interview with media personality Jude Chidonwo, accused Nabila of betrayal, claiming she falsely accused him of infidelity and brought friends to physically assault him.
During the interview, Oritsefemi stated, “Nabila had 21 miscarriages, yet she still tells me, Oritsefemi, that I can’t impregnate her. My wife asked her friends to come and beat me up in my house. I said, ‘Look at me, lion, and the women they pursue’. They are up to 20, and they beat me, and I’m not lying.”
In response, Nabila, through her lawyers Rockson Igelige of Rockson Legal, issued a cease and desist letter to Oritsefemi, demanding a retraction of his statements, which she describes as “fabricated and concocted lies” intended to damage her reputation and subject her to public ridicule. She also emphasized that their marriage was officially dissolved by the High Court of Lagos State on March 21, 2024, and insisted that Oritsefemi stop referring to her as his wife.
Nabila’s lawyer warned that if Oritsefemi does not retract his defamatory statements within 14 days and cease further defamation, legal action will be pursued against him. The lawsuit states, “We write to you to cease further defamation of and threats to our client. You know for a fact that the above-quoted statements, amongst others, that you made during the said interview are all concocted lies designed to disparage, tarnish, and damage our client’s character and to bring her to public ridicule and hostility.
“This is so as our client did not at any time send any of her friends to beat you up nor had 21 miscarriages during her now judicially dissolved marriage to you. Our client takes exception to your defamatory aspersions designed to taint and destroy her reputation. We, therefore, demand that you cease defamatory statements against our client. We further demand that you immediately stop referring to our client as your wife and stop threatening anyone around her. Our client sued you for divorce (the dissolution of your marriage), and the High Court of Lagos State judicially dissolved the marriage on March 21, 2024,” the statement said.
