The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has filed a N15 billion defamation suit against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man accused of operating the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).
Mr Gbajabiamila filed the suit at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Wednesday (15 July), accusing Mr Adeyemi of falsely demanding a 48 per cent kickback from a N27.3 billion take-off grant approved for the purported federal agency.
The suit came about nine days after Mr Gbajabiamila’s cease-and-desist letter dated 6 July asking Mr Adeyemi to retract the claims, remove transcripts, videos, recordings and all related publications from every platform under his control, and tender an apology.
Mr Gbajabiamila, in the suit likely filed because his demands were unmet, is seeking N10 billion in general damages and N5 billion in aggravated damages over what he described as a sustained campaign of false and malicious allegations that gravely damaged his personal reputation and the integrity of the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President.
He is also asking the court to order Mr Adeyemi to pay N200 million as the cost of the suit, publish an unconditional retraction and apology in five national newspapers, and post the same apology on every social media and online platform where the allegations were circulated for at least 30 consecutive days.
