The Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting on Moore Road, Calabar, has acquitted media personality and Former Special Assistant on Media to the immediate past Governor of Cross River State, Miss Ursula Onah Agbor, of all charges brought against her.
Delivering judgment on Wednesday, 13 August 2025, Chief Magistrate Ecoma described the four-count charge against Agbor as “incurably bad and lacking in substance.” The court consequently struck out the suit and discharged the defendant.
The Police, in Suit No. MC/300c/2025, had accused Agbor of impersonation, intimidation, defamation of character, and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace against one Loveth Bissong a Restaurant Owner by Triangle Calabar Cross River State all of which the Ex Governor Aide and Media Personality Ursula Agbor pleaded NOT GUILTY.
In a considered ruling delivered on the 13th day of August 2025, Chief Magistrate Ecoma upheld the arguments of Agbor’s counsel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, who maintained that the charges were incompetent, vague, and defective, lacking the necessary particulars to allow the defendant to mount a proper defense. He stressed that such omissions amounted to a breach of her fundamental right to fair hearing as guaranteed by Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution and Section 216 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Cross River State, 2016.
Striking out the case, the Chief Magistrate cautioned all parties to “sheath their swords” and warned that the court would not be used as an instrument of vendetta.
Speaking with journalists after the ruling, defense counsel Obono-Obla said the case had taken a toll on his client, who suffered cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and a sustained campaign of calumny on social media. He described the charges as a malicious attempt to tarnish her image.
“As you heard, the Court has thrown out all the charges, vindicating my client of any wrongdoing and highlighting the need for greater awareness and action against cyberbullying in Nigeria,” he said.
Obono-Obla condemned those behind the false allegations, warning that cyberbullying is a crime under Nigerian law. He further stressed that “the law serves as an instrument of social harmony and freedom, and not as a tool for oppression.
