Fani-Kayode Threatens Daily Trust, Demands For N6bn

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has given an ultimatum to the management of Daily Trust, requesting an apology and a negotiation of N6 billion for defamation of character.

Fani-Kayode said this in a letter addressed to the Managing Director of the newspaper titled, ‘Defamation of the Character of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode by Iliyasu Gadu’.

Recall that Ekohotblog had reported that the Newspaper organisation had no interest in the apology of FFK after he pleaded to the reporter of the media house he had addressed wrongly.

In the letter which was signed by the former minister’s lawyer, Adeola Adesipe, replied to the article which was a response to the former’s minster’s apology titled, ‘FFK, the Drug Addled Thug in Designer Wears’ dated August 30, 2020.

In his response letter, Fani-Kayode described the article as libellous and demanded an apology from the newspaper, which must be published in other national dailies.

The former minister also demanded that negotiation be entered into for the possible payment of N6 billion due to the irreparable loss the article had caused him.

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It read in part, “Be aware that our client has not only suffered immeasurable loss of goodwill, he is currently confronted with unbearable opprobrium by his fans, followers, and colleagues across the globe.

“Our client is alive to his rights both in law and equity but is disposed to an opportunity to undo the evil you have done by retracting the said insalubrious remarks on the same platform it was published and apologising to him in two other national dailies.

“You are also advised to enter into negotiations with us for the sum of N6bn being a token amount for penitence as opposed to the magnitude of infraction caused to our client’s nobility.”