Filmmaker Omoni Oboli reveals that “Okafor’s Law” lawsuit was a very stressful experience

Omoni Oboli recalls the unpleasant experience when she was slammed with a copyright infringement lawsuit for her movie, “Okafor’s Law”.

The “My Wife and I” actress revealed to Punch’s Saturday Beat that she experienced great anxiety during the period of the lawsuit. “The lawsuit that was slammed against me over the movie (Okafor’s Law) was a very terrible experience. It was one of the toughest points in my career,” she told Saturday Beat.

But the actress hardly has had any time to enjoy her win over the lawsuit when she lost her father in a ghastly motor accident. “I felt that I was getting out of one problem to the other and I just totally fell apart,” she recollected. “However, during that period, I realised that when something bad happens, it may cause us to fall but you have to pick yourself up because when there is life, there is hope,” she continued.

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Omoni disclosed that her family and a close network of some female friends provided support for her during that period. During that period, my family really stood by me. “When I saw my husband and kids, I felt like the world was better. I knew that as far as we were together, everything would be fine. My girls were also unbelievable. During that time, my husband was not around but a lot of women surrounded me. There were about four ladies sleeping with me every day because it was that bad, she said.

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Omoni recalled that she tried to settle the lawsuit out of court but that the other party refused. She said that she made the offer not because she was guilty of the charges levelled against her but rather because she was overwhelmed by stress by the whole process. “I began to ask myself if it was worth what I was going through because in the next five years, ‘Okafor’s Law’ would be one of the least movies that I would do.”

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She also added that she bears no animosity towards the persons that brought the lawsuit against her, though she doesn’t believe that their relationship would ever the same again. “I don’t hate the person that took me to court because I am not wired that way. When I see them in court, I say hello but I don’t know if we can ever be friends again. Right now, I am fine and I am in a good place.”

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