The former Vice President of
Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has slammed a N2.5bn libel suit against President
Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie over an alleged defamatory
publication.
The suit was in fulfillment of
Atiku’s threat to sue the lady, following her tweet on 7 May alleging that
Atiku was on the watchlist of UAE over criminal matters.
Atiku had left Nigeria in April
for Dubai in the UAE, leaving room for speculations. He returned last week,
after one of his aides died in Dubai.
Onochie, special assistant to
Buhari on social media, in the tweets also suggested Atiku was shopping for
terrorists in the Middle East.
“Atiku on UAE watchlist –
security sources; Security operatives in the United Arab Emirates are keeping a
close tab on a former Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who has been in
Middle East nation for several weeks now. What is he doing there? Me: shopping
for terrorists?
In the suit, Atiku insists that
there is no iota of truth in the said publication and that it has caused him
national and international embarrassment as well as incalculable damages.
Channels TV reported that Atiku
was at the Registry of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama
where he formally deposed to his statement of claim before the Commissioner for
Oaths.
Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate
of Nigeria is Atiku’s lawyer.
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