Edo Guber: APC deputy gov candidate files N2bn libel suit against Ighodalo’s campaign DG

Dennis Idahosa, the All Progressives Congress, APC, lawman governorship campaigner for the September 21, 2024 predetermination successful Edo State, has filed a N2.15 cardinal libel suit against Olu Martins, the Deputy Director General, Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship run council.

Idahosa, successful the suit, accused Martins of authoring an nonfiction that portrayed him arsenic a fraudster.

DAILY POST reports that the incumbent lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency instituted the suit astatine an Abuja Federal High Court.

The lawsuit with the suit fig CS/2259/24 was filed May 3, 2024 by Ehiogie West-Idahosa, SAN, counsel to the claimant.

In the suit, Idahosa demanded N2 cardinal arsenic general, punitive, aggravated and exemplary damages from the Martins for a libelous and malicious work against him.

The APC lawman gpvernorship campaigner besides demanded N15 million, being the outgo of the action.

The Federal lawmaker alleged that the suspect published an nonfiction successful respective societal media platforms titled, ‘APC GUBER CANDIDATE, OKPEBHOLO MOCKS OSHIOMHOLE AS IDAHOSA RETURNS FROM FOREIGN TRIP’.

He said the article, published connected May 2, 2024 is libelous and discredited his idiosyncratic and governmental estimation successful the eyes of the wide public.

Idahosa, arsenic a result, prayed the tribunal for a declaration that the contented of the work made vide assorted whatsapp radical chat pages, facebook and different societal media outlets by the suspect is libelous and malicious.

He besides demanded an bid of perpetual injunction restraining Martins, his agents oregon privies from further writing, printing, publishing online oregon causing to beryllium written, printed oregon published online, the aforesaid nonfiction oregon words therein oregon akin words.

Other reliefs sought see “An bid directing the suspect to contented a wide and unqualified nationalist apology to the claimant, successful words acceptable to him, to beryllium published by the suspect connected the radical whatsapp chat pages and different societal media outlets, moving uninterrupted for 4 weeks and successful retraction of the aforesaid publication.

“An bid of tribunal directing the suspect to origin the withdrawal and removal forthwith of the posting of the aforesaid publication.”