APC National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu To Sue AIT

Press statement from APC
Chieftain Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu’s media office.
Read below…
“All Progressives Congress
Natio
nal 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.