Senior Advocate of Nigeria and private lawyer to Psqaure Festus Keyamo
has reacted to the viral fight video of the brothers fighting, that was
released this morning, according to him the incident seen on the video
happened since year, and there's not truth in it... read the press
release below!
''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.
Firstly, while it is obvious that none
of these materials were released from our Chambers, we are thoroughly
saddened and embarrassed by these developments. 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.
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 whilst 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. Whatever was said by all of them that were
provocative were done in the heat of passion, emotion and anger. In
fact, the incident in the video circulating online happened sometime
around May, 2016. After all those arguments, we all still sat down and
signed agreements and we were all happy.
So, we appeal to
everyone to please grant the Okoye family the privacy, prayers and
support that they need at these trying times. I have also appealed to
all of them not to grant further interviews at this point so as not to
escalate the issues further. Whatever is going on is the usual siblings’
rivalry experienced in most families. It is nothing unusual.
We are of the strong opinion that the brothers would eventually put away their differences and come back stronger.
Thank you.
Yours most trusted,
FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN, FCIArb (UK)
Head of Chambers
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