Peter Nwaoboshi, chairman of the senate committee on Niger
Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has filed a N1 billion suit against
Lauretta Onochie, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The suit was filed at a high court of the federal capital
territory (FCT) on Monday.
The senator accused Onochie of making defamatory posts on
her social media pages on June 8.
According to him, her comments online suggested that he is a
“thief, corrupt and criminal.”
Nwaoboshi had alleged that the post on social media was an
attempt to undermine the probe of the senate.
The upper legislative chamber is probing the interim
management committee (IMC) of the NDDC for allegedly mismanaging N40 billion.
The senate’s decision to probe the commission sparked
allegations and counter-allegations between the commission, Nwaoboshi and
Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs.
The commission accused the senator of using 11 companies as
fronts to get a N3.6 billion contract. Onochie social media posts were based on
the allegation.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant,
her agents, servants, privies any other person howsoever described, acting for
and on her behalf, from further publishing/posting any other false and damaging
publication in respect of the claimant,” the originating summons read.
“An order of this honourable court directing the defendant
to publicly apologise to the claimant for the said false and misleading
publication/post of June 8th, 2020 and any other publication or post on her
other social media platforms against the claimant.”
This is not the first time the president’s aide would be
sued for defamation.
In May 2019, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar sued Onochie
demanded an apology and N500 million for alleged libel.
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