National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, is set to sue the management of Daar Communications Limited, owner of Africa Independent Television, AIT, over defamatory content of a documentary aired on Sunday.
Counsel to Tinubu, Tunji Abayomi, said a letter addressed to Daar Communications demanded N20 billion as cost of damage done to the reputation of its client, failing which the client will sue the company.
The broadcast group is also requesting apologies for the offensive documentary, which broadcast should be stopped forthwith.
The letter to AIT reads in part, “You aired an hour-long documentary focusing on our client (Bola Tinubu). Clearly pre-occupied with political resentment and hatred neither warranted, necessary, proper, or justified, you published several false allegations against our client… More disturbing is your misrepresentation that the said documentary was ‘sponsored’ without disclosing the ‘sponsors’. You cannot under law, hide under media freedom to maliciously injure a citizen’s reputation.”
Another part of the letter reads: “…to affirm the right of our client against your defamatory publication, we demand that you confirm to us within 24 hours of receipt of this letter, an apology and retraction of the said publication/ documentary.”
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