Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has filed a lawsuit against Abubakar Malami, the attorney general of the federation, for allegedly publishing defamatory material.
Kanu claimed through his attorney Aloy Ejimakor, that by alleging that he jumped bail, Malami was defaming him.
Kanu, who has been in the custody of the DSS, proceeded to demand N20 billion in damages.
Ejimakor noted that Malami’s “defamatory publication” was detrimental to Kanu’s ongoing legal proceedings in the posted copies of the lawsuit on his Twitter profile on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Ejimakor tweeted, “Last week, I filed a Suit against AGF Malami to stop him from making any further defamatory publication that Onyendu #MNK jumped bail. Such publication is highly prejudicial & injurious to MNK’s other cases pending in various courts. It has to stop!”
In the suit, Kanu demanded, “a declaration of this Honorable Court that, in view of the said Judgment of Abia State High Court, the Defendant’s published statements or utterances to the effect that Claimant jumped bail, as published in the said Vanguard newspaper publication, are libellous and defamatory;
“An order of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to retract the said Vanguard newspaper publication through another press statement to the Vanguard newspaper;
“An order of this Honorable Court directing the Defendant to write and deliver to the Claimant, an unreserved letter of apology. The letter of apology shall be prominently and boldly published full-page in two Nigerian Newspapers of national circulation, namely: Guardian Newspaper and Sun Newspaper.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant from further and forever uttering the said defamatory and libellous words about or concerning the Claimant;
“An order of this Honorable Court directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant the sum of N20,000,000,000.00 (Twenty Billion Naira only) being general and exemplary damages.”