Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo has sued an online writer and radio moderator , Mr . Akanda Oro , prevalently known as Awikonko , for N 1bn.
Obasanjo depicted as false cases by the correspondent that he contributed to the death of the late Attorney General of the Federation , Chief Bola Ige ( SAN) , and the killed National Vice-Chairman of the ancient All Nigeria Peoples Party, Marshall Harry.
The columnist was cited as saying on live radio that Obasanjo slaughtered Ige and that President Muhammadu Buhari had even asserted at the internment of the late Harry that the Obasanjo - driven government supported the executing of the ANPP chieftaincy
Awikonko was cited as saying , " Obasanjo ' s murder of Bola Ige, notwithstanding the deficiency of time , I would have recorded the names of those killed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo amid his routine .
" Bloodshed amid Obasanjo Aremu' s routine was excessively ( stupid elderly person ) .
" There are repercussions for each malevolent deed done … on the off chance that you know about my passing, don't be miserable . Maybe this is the main mission I have been sent by God to achieve.
" The kindred that murdered an entire priest of equity and lawyer general of the organization went scot - free .
" So , what will it cost him to slaughter me, an average person? Release him and submit suicide or take himself before Ogun place of worship to swear that he doesn't know anything about the homicide of Bola Ige and Marshall Harry or that every one of his kids bite the dust in his lifetime . "
In the suit recorded by his legal advisor , Kanu Agabi ( SAN) , Obasanjo said the cases by the columnist , which were likewise posted via web-based networking media, were noxious and false .
In the suit documented before Justice O . A . Adenyi of Apo Federal Capital Territory High Court with number FCT/HC/CV/2920/18, the previous President asked that Awikonko withdraw the distribution .
It read to some degree, " A revelation that the production grumbled of are false , pernicious , unjustified , damaging , derisive , disagreeable , obnoxious and have presented the petitioner to open malice , disparagement and hate both broadly and globally .
" An affirmation that the words griped of don't comprise a legitimate exercise by the litigant of his right to speak freely.
" The whole of one billion naira just against the respondent as general harms for the slander of the inquirer' s hard earned notoriety. "
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