Igboho accuses Gani Adams of defamation, seeks N500 million in damages

On Thursday, Yoruba nation activist Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, filed a lawsuit against Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, alleging character defamation.

According to PUNCH Online, Adams recently said in an audio recording that was leaked that President Bola Tinubu is using Igboho as an assassin for nefarious purposes.

He continued by saying that unverified reports connected him to the December 23, 2001, shooting death of the late Bola Ige, a former minister of justice and attorney general, at his Bodija home in Ibadan.

Igboho is requesting an order ordering the defendant to pay N500 million as aggravated damages over the leaked audio chat, which he claims damaged his reputation, in the complaint titled I/406/2024 before an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan.

In the capital of Oyo State, Ibadan, a writ of summons made accessible to PUNCH Online on Thursday states that Igboho is requesting, among other things, “a declaration that the content of an audio clip between the defendant (Adams) and a third party named Nuru Banjo that took place sometime in November 2021 and further published on all new media platforms, including Youtube, is slanderous, libelous and defamatory.

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“A declaration that it is unlawful, inappropriate and inexcusable for the defendant to defame, disparage and put to disrepute the character and reputation of the claimant (Igboho) in an audio clip published on all new media platforms, including Youtube, in a publication that took place between the defendant and a third party, Nuru Banjo, sometime in November, 2021 or thereabout.

“An order of this court directing the defendant to publicly retract the slanderous, libelous and defamatory content contained in the publication to Nuru Banjo, which was further published on all new media platforms, including Youtube, where the claimant was defamed, maligned and disparaged by the defendant in the conversation published in November 2021 by the defendant.

“An order of this court directing the defendant to engage all new media platforms, including YouTube, to take down the slanderous, libelous and defamatory content against the claimant.

“An order of this court directing the defendant to tender unreserved apology to the claimant in five national newspapers in Nigeria over defamatory content against the claimant by the defendant which has been published on all new media platforms, including YouTube.

“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, his agent, privies or assigns from further embarrassing degrading or defaming the person of the claimant.

“An order of this court for the payment of exemplary and aggravated damages in the sum of N500m in favour of the claimant for defamation of the person of the claimant by the defendant. Cost of litigation put at the sum of N10m.”

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