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Atiku files N2.5 billion libel suit against Buhari’s aide

According to the suit, Mr Abubakar accused Ms Onochie of alleging that he was on a watchlist of the United Arab Emirates in a Twitter post shared to the public in May.

He also recounted a similar post by Ms Onochie on Facebook, which suggested that the pro-Buhari media specialist was accusing Mr Abubakar and his loyalists of intimidating her. Mr Abubakar, who cited quotes from the Facebook page, also asked the court to stop the defendant from making further publications considered denigrating his character.

“An order of this Honourable court compelling the Defendant to write to the Claimant, a letter of unreserved apology for the said offensive twitter and facebook publications which were widely circulated vide the Defendant’s twitter/facebook handles and also published globally online on the social and other print media, consequent upon the embarrassment, ridicule, derision, marital disharmony, mental agony and psychological trauma which the Defendant’s said defamatory twitter and facebook...

“An order directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant, the sum of N2,500,000,000,000.00 only, 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.

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