BREAKING: Atiku sets to Files N2.5bn Suit Against Buhari Aide...Onochie
The EX - Vice-President Of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has filed a case of libel against Lauretta Onochie ,Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari over an alleged offensive tweet via her twitter handle.
Onochie allegedly suggested via her Twitter handle that Atiku was on the watch list of security operatives in the United Arab Emirates and had travelled to shop for terrorists in the Middle East.
To this end, Atiku is praying the court for an order directing Onochie to pay him the sum ofN2,500,000,000,000 representing general, aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages over the untold embarrassment, derision, public ridicule, odium, obloquy, marital disharmony, mental agony and psychological trauma which the Defendant’s publications have caused the claimant.
Counsel to Atiku, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), filed a N2.5bn suit against Onochie before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
According to the court documents dated 26th June, 2019, obtained by LEADERSHIP, Atiku noted that Onochie tweet was untrue and has no foundation.
“To say that the claimant is shopping for terrorists knowing same to be untrue and without any foundation is not only dishonest and reckless, but is calculated and politically designed to instigate security agents against him not only in the UAE, but across the world,” Atiku claimed.
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