Ighodalo Slams N20BN Go well with On Oshiomhole Over Defamatory Feedback On Planwell – Unbiased Newspaper Nigeria

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) for the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, Dr. Asue Ighodalo has filed a N20 billion defamatory swimsuit in opposition to Senator Adams Oshiomhole over feedback on Planwell Scheme.

Ighodalo, via his counsel, Ayo Asala (SAN) & Associates, additionally sought a direct and unqualified retraction and apology for the false, defamatory, and malicious feedback which must be printed in at the least two (2) Nationwide Tv Networks and three (3) nationally circulating newspapers.

The PDP candidate famous that the allegations by Oshiomhole are baseless, false, and malicious, describing them as one other of such defamatory fabrications and statements made by the Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District within the latest previous.

He added that the fabrication of the unfounded and false story is a figment of Oshiomhole’s creativeness, supposed to denigrate his good character and status for the political function of advancing the sinking fortunes of Oshiomhole’s social gathering and candidate within the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State.

A letter by Ighodalo’s attorneys dated September 16, 2024, and addressed to Oshiomhole reads, “We’re counsel to Dr. Asue Ighodalo, who’s the Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) within the forthcoming Edo State Governorship election.

“It’s our info that at a marketing campaign rally of your Celebration on Saturday, 14th of September, 2024, you made statements to the impact that our aforesaid shopper, Dr. Ighodalo, was related to or participated in an alleged pyramid scheme referred to as ‘PLANWELL’ during which quite a few Nigerians had been defrauded of their hard-earned funds.

“This false and unfounded assertion of yours was broadcast stay on tv and has acquired intensive publicity on digital and social media.

 “It’s unhappy to notice that regardless of your standing as an elder and holder of a public workplace, you seem to have developed a sample of spewing false statements within the public area purely for the achievement of your political ends.

“This baseless, unfounded, false, and malicious allegation has change into one other in a protracted line of such defamatory fabrications and statements made by you in respect of our shopper within the latest previous.

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“Our shopper is an completed Nigerian authorized practitioner and a company chief whose spectacular resume from beginning up until the present day is fully within the public area, and our shopper has completely no reference to and will by no means have been concerned in any method in any way with the purported ‘PLANWELL’ scheme with which you could have significantly defamed our shopper’s status.”

Ighodalo additional famous, “It’s clear that the fabrication of the unfounded and false story concerning the purported involvement of our shopper within the stated ‘PLANWELL’ scheme or another {financial} scheme in any way, is a figment of your creativeness and a narrative fabricated purely for the aim of denigrating the great character and status of our shopper for the achievement of the political function of advancing the sinking fortunes of your political social gathering and candidate within the forthcoming Edo State Gubernatorial elections.”

He added: “Our shopper has been inundated with calls and different contacts from involved members of the general public who heard your stated allegations on digital and social media because of which our shopper has suffered monumental unwarranted reputational injury arising from the lies and baseless fabrications of which you could have change into the purveyor.

“Our shopper is decided to make sure that these defamatory lies and fabrications which you could have put within the public area don’t go unchallenged.”

He demanded, “In consequence of the foregoing, subsequently, our shopper calls for the next:  i) An instantaneous and unqualified retraction and apology to your false, defamatory and malicious statements which must be printed in at the least two (2) Nationwide Tv Networks and three (3) Nationally circulating newspapers.

“Pay to our shopper damages within the sum of 20 billion Naira to your false, defamatory, and malicious statements referred to herein.

“Take Discover that it’s our shopper’s directions that we instantly institute acceptable proceedings in opposition to you for damages within the sum of Twenty (20) Billion Naira (N20,000,000,000.00) to your stated false, malicious, irresponsible and damaging statements made in opposition to our shopper with none basis in any way in reality.”

“Additional Take Discover that such motion can be instituted with out additional discover or correspondence to you in that regard in any way,” it added.

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