Peter Obi faces N50bn defamation suit, given 7-day ultimatum to apologize

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The National Vice Chairman (South-West) of the Labour Party, Abayomi Arabambi, has demanded a nationalist retraction, apology and N50 cardinal successful compensation from Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, implicit an alleged defamatory connection made during a podcast interview.

The request was made successful a missive issued by Neplus Ultra Attorneys and signed by Anderson U. Asemota, Peter O. Asimegbe and Stanley C. Eziefulle, connected behalf of Arabambi.

The missive said that the ineligible enactment stems from comments allegedly made by Obi during an interview, wherever helium was said to person stated that Arabambi “does not person an address”.

According to Arabambi’s ineligible team, the connection was false, malicious and defamatory, contending that it portrayed their lawsuit arsenic a faceless individual, lacking legitimacy, credibility and lasting successful nationalist life.

They stressed that the interrogation was subsequently circulated crossed tv stations and aggregate integer platforms, thereby exposing their lawsuit to wide nationalist ridicule.

“Our Client has had a known residential and concern address, maintains nonrecreational and governmental affiliations wrong Nigeria and has ne'er been a idiosyncratic whose whereabouts oregon individuality were unknown,” the missive read.

According to the letter, the work damaged Arabambi’s estimation and subjected him to embarrassment and publi...

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