The party made the threat in a letter signed by its counsel, Eze Okam, to the Managing Director of the television station.
The Youth Party has threatened legal action against Channels Television over an alleged libelous and defamatory comment against the party by one Olatunbonsu Bolarinwa.It demanded a retraction with a public apology carried with the same prominence on its platform and a national newspaper within the next seven days.“We act as Solicitors to Youth Party and on whose instructions we write on the above captioned subject matter.
The natural and ordinary meaning of the words complained of above meant and were understood to mean that our Client is not a duly registered political party in Nigeria and illegally participated in the just concluded local government election in Lagos State.“Furthermore, your malicious statement has lowered our Client’s reputation in the eyes of right-thinking members of the society, especially the respectable persons that have viewed the said programme.
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