Nigeria, May 5 -- A politician and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 House of Assembly election in Edo State, Valentine Oyemike, has filed a N1 billion human rights enforcement suit against a widow, Esther Osaghae, and an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Femi Adelogba.

The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/341/2025, was filed on 25 February 2025 at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr Oyemike accused the defendants of orchestrating the alleged illegal detention of two of his staff members, Tracy Owiku and Cyprian Saamoyal, in connection with the controversial death of the widow's 33-year-old husband, Fidelis Osaghae.

He claimed that police officers dismissed an autopsy report suggesting suicide by chemical pois...