Looters’ List: Secondus Sues Lai Mohammed, Demands N1.5bn Damages

Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has filed a defamation suit against Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed.

Ike Abonyi, spokesman of the PDP chairman, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday.

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Mohammed had mentioned Mr Secondus in the list of those who allegedly looted the nation’s treasury, alleging that the PDP National Chairman collected received N200million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA).

Secondus had through his lawyer, Mr Emeka Etiaba, denied the allegation and gave the minister 48-hours to withdraw the list and tender an apology.

“We shall within 72 hours from today (March 31, 2018), proceed to a court of competent jurisdiction to ventilate our client’s right under the law and shall further seek the protection of the court against you,” Etiaba had told Mohammed in a letter on Saturday last week.

Following the minister’s failure to meet the demands, Secondus on Friday filed a suit at a Port Harcourt High Court, Rivers State.

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Joined in the suit are the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Attorney General of the Federation and a publishing firm.

In the suit no/PHC/1013/2018, the PDP chairman asked the court to award him the sum of N1.5b as damages for “humiliation, castigation, vilification attack on his person and integrity as a result of the publication.”

He also asked the court to direct Mohammed to retract the said publication and apologise in writing and published in all social media platforms and other media organisations where it was earlier publicised and broadcasted.

He further asked the court for a perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from further publishing defamatory materials against him.

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