The legal team of Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, has given Mr. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, a 72-hour ultimatum to retract his defamatory statement, apologize publicly, and pay N5 billion in damages.
Obi’s counsel, Chief Alex Ejesieme, SAN, stated that Onanuga’s allegation linking Obi to the planned mass protest scheduled for August is false and has maligned his reputation.
The statement, made on July 20, 2024, claimed that Obi’s supporters were planning mayhem in Nigeria and that Obi should be held responsible for anarchy.
The legal team argued that the publication has caused serious emotional injury to Obi, given his decades of stellar stewardship in private and public life. They demanded a retraction of the statement, an unreserved apology in four national dailies (Vanguard, THISDAY, Punch, and The Cable), and N5 billion in damages.
“Our client is also making an unequivocal demand for the monetary damage of N5b for the embarrassment your defamatory publication has caused him and his family.”
“In the event of your failure to meet the demands set out above, our client shall be constrained to approach a Court of Competent jurisdiction and take legal action against you for defamation and libel,” the counsel wrote.
This is it! This is the best way to address this baseless utterances from government and their bosses like this one.
Childish response to a political statement.He has put himself in a difficult position of having to prove that he is not linked to some of his followers who are indeed involved in the planned protest.What does it take to just deny involvement .Ok if it is just to strengthen his denial
This present government are coming something else, the government that doesn’t know there left and right are the one accusing an intelligent person’s like peter obi who knows what it takes to fixed Nigerian in other , well the fools special assistant of the so call tunibu onanuga should face court for hes stupid statement
No be small thing …..even court of law can not award Obi 5billions after a long legal battle……talk is cheap asking for 5billions for tell you the bitter truth……who do the end sars protesters work for? ….. Oba wan reap all his wasted campaign money from a very cheap means……….
If the entire young Nigerians who are protesting next week are for Peter Obi, how then did Tinubu win the election???
Childish response to a political statement.He has put himself in a difficult position of having to prove that he is not linked to some of his followers who may indeed be involved in the planned protest.What does it take to just deny involvement .Ok if it is just to strengthen his denial
This administrations are the worst administrations ever , APC as a party haven’t to offer Nigerian there are the worst we ever experience in Nigerian
This administrations are the worst administrations ever , APC as a party haven’t to offer Nigerian there are the worst we ever experience in Nigerian