Yoruba Nation advocate Sunday Adeyemo, widely known as Sunday Igboho, has initiated legal proceedings against the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, over purported defamation of character.
The lawsuit, filed by Igboho’s legal team led by J. A. Sanusi, was submitted at the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, as revealed by court documents on Wednesday.
The separatist leader prayed that the court should award a compensation of N500 million against Gani Adams for the alleged defamatory statements against him.
Among others, Igboho prayed for an order of the court “for the payment of exemplary and aggravated damages of Five Hundred Million Naira (N500,000,000.00) in favour of the Claimant for defamation of the person of the Claimant by the Defendant [and] Cost of litigation put at the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000.00)”.
Igboho said that Gani Adams accused him of being a serial killer and assassin for top politicians, including President Bola Tinubu, in an audio conversation in 2021.
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Igboho denied the allegations and urged the court to declare the content of the audio clip as slanderous against his character.
Igboho said it was “unlawful, inappropriate and inexcusable for the defendant to defame, disparage and put to disrepute the character and reputation of the claimant 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, Mr Nuru Banjo, sometime in November 2021 or thereabout.”
Igboho also prayed for an order of the court “directing the defendant to engage all new media platforms, including YouTube, to take down the slanderous, libelous and defamatory content against the claimant as said by the defendant to a third party, Mr. Nuru Banjo, from their various new media platforms.”
It asked the court to direct “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 who has been published on all new media platforms, including YouTube”.
In addition, Igboho asked for an “order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant, his agent, privies or assigns from further scandalizing, assaulting, embarrassing, degrading or defaming the person of the Claimant.”
