Ayo Makun Petitions Police Against Agozi Samuel Who Accused Him Of Having An Affair With May Edochie

Nigerian comedian, Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, has taken legal action against Agozi Samuel, who accused him of having an affair with May Edochie, the first wife of Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie.

AY Makun submitted a petition to the Delta State Police Command accusing Agozi Samuel of “criminal defamation and cyberstalking.”

In a Facebook post, Samuel had alleged that AY was involved in an extra-marital affair with May Edochie, leading to the dissolution of her marriage with Yul.

Reacting on his Facebook page, the comedian strongly denied these allegations, describing them as false and baseless.

The petition, filed by AY’s lawyers on January 24, 2024, outlined the malicious and defamatory statements made by Agozi in a viral video.

AY expressed his distress over the video and the subsequent messages he received from concerned friends, family, and business partners.

The comedian emphasized that the false statements made by Agozi Samuel were intended to generate traffic and views for his social media page, causing public outrage and unnecessary anxiety for AY and his family.

IAY’s lawyers have requested the arrest, investigation, and prosecution of Agozi Samuel for the “coordinated malicious and baseless publication.”

The comedian also expressed his frustration, stating that he will no longer tolerate such acts that are designed to harm his reputation, career, ambitions, and relationships.

The petition partly read, “On Monday, 22 January 2024, our client was inundated with a barrage of messages from concerned friends, family, and business partners regarding the circulation of four minutes, thirty-two seconds (4:32) video (Annexure 2) which purportedly emanated from the Facebook page of one Mr. Agozi Samuel with the user name, Agozi Commedy (“the page/account”) who is unknown by our client at all material times before the occurrence of this event.

“In the four minutes, thirty-two seconds video titled “AY comedian were is your wife” which was posted on Saturday, 20 January 2024 on the page with a following of over 23,000 followers as can be seen in Annexure 1 to this letter. The suspect, in a mischievous attempt to generate traffic and views for his page and to gain cheap popularity, knowingly and intentionally made various statements that are not only false and baseless but also capable of causing annoyance, insult, enmity, hatred, public outrage and needless anxiety to our client and his family and exposing our client to hatred and public ridicule.

“The said publication alleges that our client is involved in an extra-marital affair with one, May Edochie, the wife of Yul Edochie, and that our client was responsible for the marital crisis between May and her husband. ”

The petition went further to state the allegations made by Agozi against AY.

“For the purpose of clarity, the exact false, baseless, and untrue statements knowingly and intentionally made at several intervals by Agozi Samuel in the said video are reproduced below as follows:

“You slept with May. Because of you, Yul Edochie and his wife separated because you’re having an affair with Yul Edochie’s wife which is May. The general public did not know what was happening even the Court case that is going on the general public did not know.”

“I told you on the 31st night that in 2024, I will be the one to bring you down. For you to bring down a home that lasted for many years, you made them separated, you made the wife live differently and the husband. What are you looking for in somebody’s wife that your wife does not have?

“Your plan now is to go and marry May. I know all your plans, you want to go and marry May. You think I don’t know?

“This is what really happened. AY slept with May Edochie, that was why Yul Edochie and May Edochie are not together today.

“Remember our conversation on the 31st night? I told you that I would be the one to bring you down in 2024. Since you don’t want to apologise to Yul Edochie and apologise to his fans because you’re the one masterminding everything. What kind of wicked man are you? AY, what kind of wicked man are you?

“And I will teach you and you will learn the hard way. Mark my word”

In the petition, the comedian through his lawyers requested that the police arrest, investigate, and prosecute Agozi for “the coordinated malicious and baseless publication.”

In his caption on Facebook, AY wrote, “There are a lot of things that I have been letting go from colleagues, bloggers and clout chasers concerning my person. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

“The more I continue to disregard or accept all these fake apologies flying online, the more all these acts of wickedness are designed to hurt me, my career, ambitions, and even relationships.”

KanyiDaily recalls that Ayo Makun recently addressed the criticism from singer Seun Kuti, the son of afrobeat legend Fela Kuti.