Lagos East Senatorial Bye-Election: Gbadamosi To Sue APC Chieftain for Libel 

The candidate of the Peoples Democractic Social gathering within the forth-coming Lagos East Senatorial District bye-election, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi, is ready to pull the All Progressive Congress, APC and its Lagos State Chapter spokesperson, Mr Seye Oladejo, earlier than the Lagos Excessive Court docket for defamation of character.

In a Memorandum of Declare issued by human rights activist, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, Gbadamosi gave seven days discover to Oladejo to retract the offending publication, tender an unreserved apology along with fee of damages or face civil motion in courtroom.

It will likely be recalled that Oladejo had claimed in his assertion extensively reported on twenty third November, 2020, that Gbadamosi solid his WAEC certificates as a result of the certificates didn’t embody some topics. Gbadamosi is claiming that the publications of Oladejo had been maliciously issued so as to tarnish his good fame and to realize undue benefit for the candidate of the APC within the stated bye-election. He acknowledged additional {that a} cautious investigation would have revealed to Oladejo that the coverage of WAEC is to situation certificates just for programs through which a go has been recorded by the candidate.

Within the Memorandum of Declare signed by Adegboruwa, Gbadamosi’s proposed claims are acknowledged to incorporate a declaration that Oladejo’s authored publication reported in a number of newspapers and on-line media on or about November 23 and November 24, 2020, is calculated to wrongly expose the Gbadamosi to contempt, ridicule, obloquy and odium within the estimation of right-thinking members of the Society, a declaration that Oladejo’s approval and publication of his issued press statements reported in a number of newspapers and on-line media, is fake, malicious and defamatory, an order compelling the Defendant to retract the aforesaid libelous issued statements, an order compelling the Defendant to situation to the Claimant, a letter of unreserved apology for the stated publication of his issued press statements reported in a number of newspapers and on-line media in opposition to the Claimant and publish the stated letter of apology in 4 (4) Nationwide Newspapers.

Gbadamosi is alse in search of an order restraining the Defendant, whether or not by himself, brokers, servants, staff, privies, assigns, associates or private representatives, or in any other case howsoever from additional publishing, posting or internet hosting such defamatory statements in opposition to the Claimant, an order directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant, the sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira) solely representing aggravated and exemplary damages for the harm, loss and/or probably lack of fame and character triggered the Claimant by the Defendant’s publication, an order directing the Defendant to pay to the Claimant, the sum of N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) solely representing normal damages over the embarrassment, derision, public ridicule, odium, obloquy, psychological agony and psychological trauma triggered the Claimant by the Defendants’ publication.

The Lagos East Senatorial District Bye-election is scheduled to be held this Saturday, December 5, 2020.

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