National
leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is
set to sue the management of the Daar Communications Limited, owners of
the Africa Independent Television, AIT for alleged defamatory content of
a documentary aired on Sunday by the station.
Counsel to Asiwaju Tinubu,
Tunji Abayomi, said a letter asking Daar Communications to apologise for
the content and stop further airing was delivered this afternoon.
A part of the letter to AIT
reads, ” …You aired an hour long documentary focussing on our client
(Bola Tinubu). Clearly pre-occupied with political resentment and hatred
neither warranted, necessary, proper, or justified, you published
several false allegations against our client…More disturbing is your
misrepresentation that the said documentary was “sponsored” without
disclosing the “sponsors”. You cannot under law, hide under media
freedom to maliciously injure a citizen’s reputation”.
The letter also demanded for
N20billion (Twenty Billion Naira) as cost of damage done to the
reputation of its client failing which the client will sue the company.
Another part of the letter
reads: “…to affirm the right of our client against your defamatory
publication, we demand that you confirm to us within 24 hours of receipt
of this letter, an apology and retraction of the said
publication/documentary.”
See scanned copy of letter to AIT below:
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