Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has filed a N500million suit against a former Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Kayode Otitoju and Arise Television for alleged defamation of character and malicious airing of offending broadcast against him.
Fayemi averred that he had been exposed and subjected to “unwarranted public ridicule, odium, opprobrium, embarrassment and unprecedented disrepute” on account of defendants’ untrue and reckless malicious statements, which he described as mere fabrication and falsehood orchestrated to paint him black and taint his good image and record as an upright man and to destroy his future political career.
He alleged that Otitoju made several grievous and damaging allegations against his person on the said programme, where he allegedly described him as “the problem we have in Ekiti.” These, he said, included accusing Fayemi of colluding with Justice Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti Judicial Division to perpetrate perversion of justice in the suit filed by an All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant, Mr Kayode Ojo, against the governorship primary victory of Mr Biodun Oyebanji on January 27, 2022.
According to the former governor, Otitoju, on the programme, accused him of “conducting a nocturnal sitting at the Ekiti State House of Assembly to get the former Speaker, Rt. Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan, impeached and installed Bunmi Adelugba,” among others. Fayemi said that he caused the firm of his lawyers, Octodas Attorneys, “to write the defendants demanding a retraction of the offending statement/publication via letters dated November 25, 2022 and December 15, 2022 to comply with the demands therein, but which the defendants have refused to do.”All rights reserved.
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