Strike out Igboho’s N500m defamation suit, Gani Adams tells Court

Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has requested that the lawsuit brought against him for purported character slander by Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, be dismissed by the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan.

Igboho claims the purported leaked audio chat damaged his reputation, and he is suing the defendant to get an injunction forcing him to pay N500 million in aggravated damages.

Igboho is also seeking, among others, “A declaration that the content of an audio clip between the defendant (Adams) and a third party named Nuru Banjo that took place sometime in November 2021, and further published on all news media platforms, including Youtube, is slanderous, libelous and defamatory.”

However, in a motion filed by Adam’s counsel, Oluwole Kehinde, he is praying the court to strike out the suit.

Adams in an affidavit in support of the motion, deposed to by one Michael Oluwanmi Okunore also asked the court to strike out the suit for it failure to follow due process.

Adams averred that the claimant’s writ of summons in the suit does not have the required mandatory endorsement that it was for service outside Oyo State and in Lagos State.