Press statement from APC Chieftain Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's media office. Read below...
"All Progressives Congress National Leader Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu is set to sue the management of the Daar Communications
Limited, owners of the Africa Independent Television, AIT for the
defamatory content of a documentary aired on Sunday.
Counsel to Asiwaju Tinubu, Tunji Abayomi, said a letter asking Daar
Communications to apologize for the content and stop further airing was
delivered this afternoon.
A part of the letter to AIT reads, " ... You
aired an hour long documentary focussing on our client (Bola Tinubu).
Clearly pre-occupied with political resentment and hatred neither
warranted, necessary, proper, or justified, you published several false
allegations against our client...More disturbing is your
misrepresentation that the said documentary was "sponsored" without
disclosing the "sponsors". You cannot under law, hide under media
freedom to maliciously injure a citizen's reputation".
The letter also demanded for N20billion (Twenty Billion
Naira) as cost of damage done to the reputation of its client failing
which the client will sue the company.
Another part of the letter reads: "…to affirm the right of our client
against your defamatory publication, we demand that you confirm to us
within 24 hours of receipt of this letter, an apology and retraction of
the said publication/documentary."
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