"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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