Nigerian Court Awards N4Million To Punch Newspaper, Columnist Against Obasanjo, Strikes Out Ex-President’s Defamation Suit
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has awarded the sum of N4 million against former President Olusegun Obasanjo and its columnist, Sonala Olumhense.
Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi awarded the sum of N2 million to both defendants as the cost of the action.
The former President filed a lawsuit against Punch Newspaper and the columnist for alleged defamation regarding a January 27, 2019 post.
Obasanjo, through his lawyer Kanu Agabi, sought N1 billion in damages from the newspaper and the columnist, describing the article as “false, malicious, unjustified, injurious, scornful, distasteful, and unsavoury”.
Obasanjo said the article exposed him to “public odium, ridicule and disdain.”
The article accused Obasanjo of wasting public funds.
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