An alleged assassination plot levelled against Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, by the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has breed a N50m suit.
With suit marked I/406/2024 filed before an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, Igboho is suing for defamation of character against Iba Gani Adams.
With it, Ighoho has made good his earler threat to sue Adams for allegedly accusing him of an assassination plot.
Adams’ Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, has however said Adams had never been served any process.
”Iba Gani Adams was never served any process. The legal team of Aare Onakakanfo will handle the matter.
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Immediately we receive court process, there will be a response”, the Punch quotes him as telling their correspondent.
The matter concerns viral voice note in which Adams was heard allegedly saying that the Chief of Staff to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Mr Tayo Ayinde, had hired Sunday Igboho to undertake an assassination.
Details of the alleged assassination plot were in a voice note, where Adams was allegedly heard saying in Yoruba language:
“So, be careful associating with Igboho. Just last night, he was with Tayo Ayinde, the Lagos State Governor’s Chief of Staff. He was heavily paid”, Adams allegedly said in the alleged voice note.
“You know that I have an extensive intelligence network as Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland. Until about 2:45 am, he was with Tayo Ayinde, the Lagos State Governor’s Chief of Staff, who Tinubu also uses in Lagos to coordinate the execution of his evil machinations. He has been doing work of that nature for Tinubu since his days in the SSS.
“Tayo Ayinde gave N45m in cash to Igboho for the operation, thus shortchanging Igboho to the tune of N5m out of the N50m purse provided by Tinubu. The discovery of this has brewed disenchantment in their midst.”
In a writ of summon made available to The PUNCH in Ibadan, on Thursday, Sunday Igboho in demanding a retraction and an apology, also demands a “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.
“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 honourable 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 honourable 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 honourable court directing the defendant to tender an 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.”
Making the demands, through his lawyer, he also wants the court to perpetually restrain Adams, “his agents, privies or assigns from further embarrassing, degrading or defaming the person of the claimant.”
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