The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has threatened a legal action against the spokesman for
the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,
for what he termed defamation of his person.
Fani-Kayode had, in a recent press statement made available to various
media houses, alleged that Osinbajo had taken a secret oath with a national
leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to relinquish power as the vice president to
Tinubu after six months in office, in the event that the APC won the
presidential election.
Fani-kayode had, in the statement titled, “APC is selling a dummy to the
whole world; Tinubu is the real candidate,” reportedly described Osinbajo as a
stooge in the hands of Tinubu.
But Osinbajo, in a pre-litigation letter to Fani-Kayode on Tuesday,
asked him to, within seven days, retract the said defamatory statement or be
prepared for litigation.
In the letter written on his behalf by his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN),
the senior advocate also asked Fani-Kayode to tender a public apology to him
which should be aired on four television stations and published in four
national dailies in addition to a payment of N2bn for the damages already done
against his person.
Falana said Fani-Kayode’s statement was not only false but was
specifically targeted at impugning Osinbajo’s character and lower him in the
estimation of right thinking members of the public.
He described Fani-Kayode’s statement as vicious, wicked and reckless,
adding that the claims were inconsistent with Osinbajo’s faith, role and ethics
as a pastor, a professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Falana, while saying that Fani-Kayode’s statement suggested that
Osinbajo was complicit in a fraud against the Nigerian people, maintained that
such statement negated Osinbajo’s “publicly acclaimed and validated record of competence,
honesty and integrity.”
He therefore asked Fani-Kayode to retract the statement with a public
apology or “we shall proceed with our client’s instruction to seek appropriate
legal remedies for your publication and dissemination of defamatory statements.”
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