The Former Vice president of Niheria Atiku Abubakar appeared at the high court in Maitama, Abuja to sign his witness deposition in support of the N2.5 billion libel suit filed against Lauretta Onochie, an aide to President Buhari on social media.
The former Vice president was accompanied by Mike Ozekhome, his lawyer and other members of his legal team. Atiku is requesting the sum of N2.5bn from Onochie as ”general, aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages”.
Ozekhome said "Atiku is claiming this sum from her for her defamatory story published on her twitter handle and facebook page, in which she stated that Atiku was on the UAE watch list."
Report shows that the reliefs sought by the former vice-president are: "An order of this honourable court compelling the defendant to make a retraction of, and apology to, the claimant, for the said offensive twitter and facebook publications on the same platforms, which is also to be published in three national newspapers with global circulation within the country and on broadcast on AIT, Channels and NTA television stations.
Upon the untold embarrassment, public ridicule, odium, obloquy, derision, marital disharmony, mental agony and psychological trauma which the defendant’s said defamatory twitter and facebook publications have caused the claimant, the court compell the defendant to write to the claimant, a letter of unreserved apology for the said offensive twitter and facebook publications which went viral. An order was then made directing the defendant to pay to the claimant, the sum of N2,500,000,000,000.00 (two billion, five hundred million naira).
No comments:
Post a Comment