Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, Mr. Peter Obi, has given the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, a 72 hours notice to apologise to him and pay N5bn damages for defamation.
Obi, in a letter written to Onanuga through his counsel, Alex Ejesieme SAN, demanded that Onanuga retract an allegation he made on his X handle linking him to the planned mass protest scheduled for August.
Onanuga had on July 20, 2024, via his X handle @aonanuga1956, said that Peter Ob’s supporters were planning mayhem in Nigeria and that Obi should be held responsible for anarchy.
Reacting to the allegation, Obi, through his counsel, Alex Ejesieme SAN, said the allegation which went viral on social and mainstream media and read by many within and outside the country, maligned his hard-earned reputation.
He added that the allegation dented his image as a man who indulges in violence when all his antecedents are vivid and that he abhors violence even in the face of extreme provocation.
According to the legal counsel, the publication was a calculated plot to demean, ridicule, humiliate and embarrass Peter Obi by the estimation of every right-thinking member of the society. The legal counsel mentioned that the allegation may have achieved its insipid motive as well-wishers from all around the globe have inundated Obi to register their shock.