Tinubu said the report titled: ‘Threat of perjury trial: How Jonathan Blackmailed Bola Tinubu before 2011 Presidential election,’ was not only false, but defamatory.
A letter to the online news medium and signed Tinubu’s lawyer, Olatunji
Abayomi, said: “We demand a statement acknowledging your error of trying to damage our client’s reputation as well as a statement regretting the same.
“Please this matter must be attended to immediately otherwise you run the risk of multiple civil suits all over the world in defence of our client,” he wrote.
The lawyer said the report attempted to defame Tinubu’s reputation by spreading old, utterly false gossip by wrongly destroying his prospects.
Sahara Reporters, he said, failed to inquire diligently about Tinubu’s educational records to know that he was an award-winning alumnus of the Chicago State University.
Also, there was no charge at the Federal High Court numbered FHC/ABJ/CR/04/2011, nor was Tinubu tried or convicted.
Besides, Abayomi noted that the United States Embassy, in its February 4, 2003 response to an inquiry by the Inspector-General of Police, stated that there is “no criminal arrest, records, wants or warrants for Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
“If you had checked readily available records, you would have found that he travels periodically to the United States. Had he been engaged in criminal wrongdoing, he would have been ineligible for entry into that country,” Abayomi wrote.
He also recalled that the Code of Conduct charge against Tinubu was dismissed.
“Sahara Reporters appears to have surrendered itself to propagate old allegations to serve the same old failing antagonists who can find no serious grounds beyond their noisy interests,” lawyer added.
source: ThisDay
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