Onanuga Responds To Peter Obi's ₦5 Billion Defamation Threat

Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Tinubu, responds to Peter Obi’s ₦5 billion defamation threat after alleging Obi’s link to a planned mass protest.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, has responded to Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi over a ₦5 billion defamation threat.

Peter Obi issued Onanuga a 72-hour ultimatum to apologize and pay ₦5 billion in damages for defamation and libel or face legal action.

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The demand follows Onanuga’s allegations linking Peter Obi to the planned mass protest scheduled for August.

On July 20, 2024, the Presidential Spokesperson, via his X handle, alleged that “Peter Obi’s supporters are planning mayhem in Nigeria, and Obi should be held responsible for anarchy.”

However, the former Governor of Anambra State, writing through his counsel, Alex Ejesieme, SAN, said that the allegation, which was widely published in social and mainstream media and read by many within and outside the country, maligned his hard-earned reputation as a man who indulges in violence when all his antecedents are vivid that he abhors violence even in the face of extreme provocation.

Peter Obi said the demeaning and scandalous publication also caused a severe emotional injury to him, given his decades of stellar stewardship in private and public life.

In response, Onanuga, in a post via his X handle on Tuesday, said he is not afraid of any legal action and is ready to meet Peter Obi in court.

He wrote, “I am still waiting for the letter from Peter Obi’s lawyer threatening a N5 billion suit and demanding an apology to Peter Obi over the planned ‘revolution’.