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Benue: Ortom Slams ₦60bn Defamation Suit Against Akume
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has made good his menace and dragged the Minister of Particular Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume to courtroom.
The swimsuit filed on the Makurdi Excessive Court docket on Friday, third September is marked MHC/268/2021 and Ortom is accusing Akume of libel and defamation.
Naija Information understands the swimsuit was filed on the Governor’s behalf by Okon N. Efut, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and 4 different attorneys.
The 17-paragraph assertion of declare lodged by the attorneys relies on a press convention convened by Senator Akume in Abuja on thirtieth August during which he known as on the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) and the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) to research the monetary dealings of Benue State below Samuel Ortom.
However Ortom had in response, accused Akume of releasing the assertion to prepare a ‘smear marketing campaign’ towards him. He additional accused the Minister of abandoning the folks of his constituency who’re those most affected by the frequent Fulani herdsmen assaults in Benue State, vowing to tug him to courtroom for his utterances in the course of the press convention.
The Governor made good his menace on Friday, when he filed a ₦60bn swimsuit during which he’s searching for ₦50 billion as normal damages for libel and ₦10 billion as exemplary and aggravated damages.
Within the swimsuit filed, Ortom is searching for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant by himself or by any agent, servants, or privies from related or additional publication of any defamatory assertion towards him.
No date has been mounted but for listening to to start on the matter.
