Fayemi sues state House of Assembly member, Fayose’s aide to court for libel

- Two state officials, a member of House of Assembly and Governor Fayose’s media aide are standing trial for allegedly making defamatory statements against Fayemi

- Former governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi slammed the duo with a N3 billion libel suit

Former governor of Ekiti state and minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, has taken two Ekiti state officials to court, for a libel suit. The minister slammed the officials with a N3 billion libel suit over alleged defamatory statements made against him.
Fayemi filed the suit against a member of the Ekiti state House of Assembly, Samuel Omotoso, and the special assistant on new media and public communications to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Lere Olayinka.
Former Ekiti governor, Fayemi sues state House of Assembly member, Fayose’s aides to court
Former Ekiti governor, Fayemi sues state House of Assembly member, Fayose’s aides to court

READ ALSO: I will return to Nigeria as soon as possible – Ibori

According to Premium Times, the suit followed the refusal of the defendants to retract the statements made against the minister and to tender public apology as demanded by his counsel, Rafiu Balogun, in a letter dated November 19, 2016.
Fayemi in a suit number 6/577/2016, filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in the Abuja Judicial Division, is seeking among others, payment of “aggravated damages” to the tune of N3 billion.
The amount has a breakdown of N2 billion against Lere Olayinka, the first defendant and another N1bilion aggravated damages against Mr. Omotoso, the second defendant.
Fayemi is also seeking a retraction of what he termed the offensive statements/utterances; a public apology to be published and aired on Ekiti State Television and Channels Television as well as the social media.

READ ALSO: We cannot sit in our homes and complain about leadership - Folu Adeboye

According to a statement by Fayemi’s media aide, both Omotoso and Olayinka had during an EKTV live programme also broadcast on a cable network, Startimes, on July 6, 2016 alleged that Mr. Fayemi illegally took N1.5 billion from Ekiti treasury and gave it to the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, to win the 2015 presidential election.
Meanwhile, Ekiti Youth Vanguard has come out to criticized the state House of Assembly over call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate former Governor Kayode Fayemi over an alleged N40 billion fraud.

The youth group described the move as a tactic by Governor Ayodele Fayose and “his men in the House of Assembly” to divert the attention of Ekiti people from the “mindless looting of the state treasury by Fayose’s administration while workers remain unpaid for six months”.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Philip Emeagwali Among The Top 10 Most Intelligent People In The World With 190

Image
Philip Emeagwali has been listed as amongst the top 10 most intelligent people in the world, having the acclaimed IQ of 190. Philip Emeagwali, of course, is a renowned and world-acclaimed engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help detect petroleum fields. He has the 9th slot directly below Marilyn vos Savant, 8th with verified IQ of 190 and directly above 10th placed Garry Kasparov who is alleged to have an IQ of 190. The Igbo-born Nigerian is credited for inventing a formula that allows supercomputers powered by thousands of processors to perform billions of calculations per second, a discovery that made international headlines and inspired the reinvention of supercomputers. The supercomputer comprises of thousands of networked computers and the Internet also comprises of millions of networked computers. The supercomput...
Read more
Image
FG to start bond roadshow, seek loan from World Bank - Nigeria will soon meet investors before a Eurobond sale - The federal government plans to apply for a $1 billion loan from the World Bank - This will happen once the Senate approve this year’s budget Nigeria will soon meet investors before a Eurobond sale as the federal government plans to apply for a $1 billion loan from the World Bank. Finance minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun According to Bloomberg, the process will commence as soon as the Nigerian Senate approve this year’s budget. “We are about to embark on the roadshow for the dollar bond”, Mrs Kemi Adeosun told Bloomberg. Adeosun had previously told the Nigerian media that the federal government wants to raise $1 billion in what would be Nigeria’s first Eurobond since 2013....
Read more
Image
EFCC recovers more vehicles, others from ex-Customs boss Abdullahi Dikko Inde Barely six days after 17 “exotic” vehicles were recovered from a Kaduna warehouse belonging to former Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Abdullahi Dikko Inde, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), another set of items including vehicles, tricycles and motorcycles, have been seized.   The items, which were recovered on Monday and Tuesday from another warehouse said to be the property of the former Customs boss include a 2013 model 32-seater Nissan bus, 42 cargo tricycles, one tipper truck, 16 motorcycles, over 500 rug carpets and two fire-proof safes.   Zonal Head, EFCC in Kaduna, Bappa Ibrahim said yesterday that the recovery was made following tip-off . He said the operation, which led to the recovery of the items was a continuation of the anti-graft agency’s investigation on the former Customs boss. Ibrahim said the items were recovered ...
Read more