Ghanaian entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Nana Kwame Bediako, widely known as Cheddar, has gone back to the High Court in London to overturn a $14.9 million judgment entered against him in favour of Cola Holdings Limited.

In January 2025 a High Court judge ordered Mr Bediako to pay $14.9m to Cola Holdings, the property investment vehicle of the London-based Cola family. The order followed a financing dispute over No. 1 Oxford Street, a 108-unit serviced apartment development in Accra that the two sides built together.

In a claim issued at the end of October 2026, Mr Bediako alleges that the paperwork Cola Holdings relied on to win that judgment was "procured by fraud". At the centre of the case is a deed of indemnity bearing his signature. He says he never signed it and never authorised anyone to use his signature.

The deed is dated 18 January 2018 and was said to have been signed and witnessed at his office in Accra. Mr Bediako says he was in Nigeria that day.

He is asking the court to set the original judgment aside. He is also seeking compensation from the Cola family for the "serious losses" he says the ruling has caused him.



According to The Times, which reported on the filing on 8 November 2026, Mr Bediako's lawyers told the court the signature "was not made by him" and that he "does not know how a signature in his name came to be on the deed of indemnity".



Lawrence Cartier, representing Cola Holdings, told The Times that the family "categorically denies the claims made" and will file "a comprehensive defence" in the coming weeks.

The case has been reported by The Times (8 November 2026).