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Atiku appears in court, signs N2. 5bn libel suit against Buhari’s aide

 

Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has appeared at the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama to sign his witness
deposition in support of the N2.5 billion libel suit filed against
Lauretta Onochie, an aide of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Atiku was accompanied by his legal counsel, Mike Ozekhome and other
members of his legal team.
In the suit which was filed in June 2019, Atiku is seeking the sum of
N2.5bn from the presidential aide as “general, aggravated, punitive
and exemplary damages”.
“Atiku is claiming this sum from Onochie for her defamatory story
published on her twitter handle and Facebook page, in which she stated
that Atiku was on the UAE watch list,” Ozekhome said.
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, also to be published in three
national newspapers with wide circulation within the country and also
broadcast on AIT, Channels and NTA television stations, consequent
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.
“An order of this honourable court compelling the defendant to write
to the claimant, a letter of unreserved apology for the said offensive
twitter and Facebook publications which were widely circulated vide
the defendant’s twitter/Facebook handles and also published globally
online on the social and other print media, consequent upon the
embarrassment, ridicule, derision, marital disharmony, mental agony
and psychological trauma which the Defendant’s said defamatory twitter
and Facebook publications have caused the claimant.
“An order directing the defendant to pay to the claimant, the sum of
N2,500,000,000,000.00 (two billion, five hundred million naira) only,
representing general, aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages over
the untold embarrassment, derision, public ridicule, odium, obloquy,
marital disharmony, mental agony and psychological trauma which the
Defendant’s publications have caused the claimant.

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