Ade Adesomoju, AbujaA former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has carried out his threat to sue President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, for her alleged libellous tweet via her Twitter handle on May 7, 2019. The post allegedly suggested that Atiku was on the watch list of security operatives in the United Arab Emirates and had travelled to shop for terrorists in the Middle East. Atiku, through his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), filed a N2.5bn suit against Onochie before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on June 26. Me: Shopping for Terrorists?”The claimant said “the defamatory publication” was also published by several newspapers nationwide and on several social media news. It has caused him national and international backlash and embarrassment and has done incalculable damage to him.

Source: Punch June 30, 2019 12:13 UTC