Gov. Wike Drags Thisday Newspapers To Court, Demands N7 Billion |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike, has dragged ThisDay Newspaper to Court.

He is asking for a  whopping N7 Billion in a   suit  he slammed on the Newspaper.

The N7 Billion lawsuit against Thisday Newspapers is for an alleged libel written and published by the Newspaper on its Tuesday, June 23, 2020 edition.

Wike said the lead story  captioned, “With Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP’S Waterloo, Almost,” portrayed him as an unreliable friend/person.

Governor Wike, in the suit filed by his lawyer, Emmanuel C.Ukala, Esq, SAN, FCIArb, at the Port Harcourt High Court, noted that the defendants further portrayed the Rivers State Governor as a selfish politician and a person who meddled in and exerts subterranean influence in judicial matters in courts sitting in Port Harcourt, to achieve selfish political interest and that he is not a true democrat.

The Governor, under the flagship of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is seeking an order of mandatory injunction compelling the Defendants to withdraw, retract and recant the said libelous publication.

The retraction is to be published on the front page(and to devote the whole full front page to the publication of the retraction).

ThisDay Newspaper is also to publish an apology in the terms acceptable to the Claimant and with his prior approval at the back page( on the full-back page) in the same edition on which the retraction is published, in two consecutive editions of ThisDay Newspapers.

The Claimant is also seeking an order of injunction restraining the Defendants by themselves or by their servants, agents, privies, and associates from further publishing the said libel or any manner, however, and whatsoever continuing to circulate the said libelous publication concerning the Claimant.