By Akinwale Kasali
Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has alleged assassination plot by Iba Gani Adams, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland on him. He has, therefore, slammed with a N500 Million Lawsuit.
The Suit marked I/406/2024 filed before an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital saw Igboho suing for defamation of character against Gani Adams.
It would be recalled that Sunday Igboho had threatened to sue the Yoruba Generalissimo for defaming him in an audio that went viral that also indicted the Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo Olu Chief of Staff, CoS, Tayo Ayinde.
In the audio, there was a conversation with Gani Adams and someone in Diaspora where it was said that Igboho is been used as an assassin by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in which Tayo Ayinde was the mastermind of all the atrocities perpetrated by Igboho.
But reacting to the Suit against Gani Adams, Special Assistant on Media to the Aare Onakakanfo, Kehinde Aderemi disclosed that his Principal is yet to be served any process.
Aderemi said, “ Iba Gani Adams was never served any process. The legal team of Aare Onakakanfo will handle the matter.
“ Immediately we receive court process, there will be a response”, Aderemi said.
In a Statement by Sunday Igboho, he said he is demanding a retraction and an apology. He is also demanding a “a declaration that the content of an audio clip between the defendant (Adams) and a third party named Nuru Banjo that took place sometime in November 2021 and further published on all new media platforms, including YouTube, is slanderous, libelous and defamatory.
“ A declaration that it is unlawful, inappropriate and inexcusable for the defendant to defame, disparage and put to disrepute the character and reputation of the claimant (Igboho) in an audio clip published on all new media platforms, including YouTube, in a publication that took place between the defendant and a third party, Nuru Banjo, sometime in November 2021 or thereabout.
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendant to publicly retract the slanderous, libelous and defamatory content contained in the publication to Nuru Banjo which was further published on all new media platforms, including YouTube, where the claimant was defamed, maligned and disparaged by the defendant in the conversation published in November 2021 by the defendant.
“ An order of this honourable court directing the defendant to engage all new media platforms, including YouTube, to take down the slanderous, libelous and defamatory content against the claimant.
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendant to tender an unreserved apology to the claimant in five national newspapers in Nigeria over defamatory content against the claimant by the defendant which has been published on all new media platforms, including YouTube.”
Making the demands, through his lawyer, he also wants the court to perpetually restrain Adams, “his agents, privies or assigns from further embarrassing, degrading or defaming the person of the claimant.”
It would be recalled that Tayo Ayinde through his Legal Team, CITIPOINT led by Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria had also demanded a retraction and an apology over the viral audio from Gani Adams, threatening to take Legal Actions if he failed to do the needful.
