Rear Admiral Alison Amaechina
Madueke, the ex-husband of former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani
Alison-Madueke, has filed a petition before Lagos State High Court, to restrain
her from using his first name (Alison) and surname (Madueke) following the dissolution
of their marriage.
He prayed the court grants an
order directing the respondent (Diezani) to adopt and revert to her pre-marital
surname (Agama).
He pleaded that the court
directs the ex-minister to issue publications in newspapers of national circulation
in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom of a notice of her discontinuation of
the use of the petitioner’s first name and surname.
The petition, in the high court
of Lagos, suit no LD/15144HD/2024, sought that the ex-wife desist from using
the petitioner’s name, which poses a significant risk of legal and financial
harm to the petitioner as the respondent faces criminal trials in Nigeria and
UK.
The petition stated that they
stopped living together in May 2015 after her ministerial appointment and in November
2021, citing irretrievable breakdown of marriage, Diezani filed a petition for
dissolution of marriage (Suit No. NSD/MG345/2021) at the High Court of
Nassarawa State, Nassarawa Judicial Division, sitting at Mararaba Gurku and on
April 13, 2022, Judgment was delivered in Suit No. NSD/MG345/2021 by Hon.
Justice A.A. Ozegya, dissolving the marriage between the Petitioner and the
Respondent on the ground that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.
The retired naval officer in
his petition, stated that the respondent faces public allegations of corruption
and financial misconduct, for which trials are ongoing for both.
The persistent portrayal of the
respondent as the spouse of the petitioner is creating embarrassment, a
misleading impression and tarnishing the reputation, integrity, and public
image of the petitioner.
Even though the marriage has
been dissolved and is now legally finalized, the respondent, more than two
years later, continues to use the Petitioner’s first name (Alison) and surname
(Madueke) as her own without any justification or consent from the Petitioner,
which falsely suggests to the public continuing relationship between the
parties though same has since legally ended.
According to the statement, the
petitioner instructed his solicitors to address a letter to the respondent,
requesting her to cease the ongoing use of his first name and surname.
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