I know most of you are aware of the recent dispute between the Ibos and Yorubas over the deportation of Ibos to Igboland by the Lagos State Governor. Subsequent to the deportation, Femi Fani Kayode lent his voice in supporting the government’s actions and making it a Ibo-Yoruba thing. When he was challenged for his views, he said he loved Ibos, afterall he had had been with Ibos prior to marriage, including Ex-Beauty Queen Bianca Ojukwu. Bianca is now threatening a lawsuit against Kayode. Kayode through his lawyers stands by his word and claims truth. Remember folks, truth is a defense for defamatory statements made, even under Nigerian Tort law.
Who do we believe? Many times, clients don’t tell their lawyers everything. So, it is for the lawyers to conduct a thorough investigation and figure it out, especially the Plaintiff’s lawyers because you don’t want to be made to look silly in court.
Cheers,
Uduak
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“We have been briefed and our services retained by Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain to demand from you an unreserved apology and a retraction of a false and malicious statement, which you published online and also caused to be published in the Leadership Newspaper of August 16, 2013.
“In the said article entitled, ‘Neither a Tribalist nor a Hater,’ you recklessly alleged, as follows: ‘I was not a tribalist when I had a long standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh…’, a statement, which you know is untrue and unfounded, but only calculated to lower our client’s esteem and damage her national and international reputation.
“Our client has never met you, does not know you in person and has never had any official or private relationship with you how much more ‘a long-standing and intimate relationship.’
“Our client is therefore, outraged by your bizarre and scandalous allegation and the numerous mails and telephone calls she has received from friends, relations and admirers who are equally embarrassed and who seek to confirm the veracity or otherwise of your false and reckless publication.
“Your apparent lame and half-hearted attempt, as published in the Leadership Newspaper of 17th August 2013, to clarify your false and malicious allegation falls far short of a retraction and does not sufficiently address the damage to our client arising from the widespread dissemination of your false publication and is therefore unacceptable to our client.
“In the circumstances, we demand, on the instruction of our client that you submit to her a clear and unqualified apology and retraction published in The Sun and Thisday newspapers in addition to having the retraction published online.
“Take note that should you fail to tender the apology and publish a retraction of your false and malicious publication, seven days next after your receipt of this demand notice, our further instructions are to seek appropriate redress in court. And that shall be without further recourse to you. Be properly guided.” – Sunnewsonline