Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has slammed a N7 Billion suit
against ThisDay Newspapers being damages for libel written and published
in ThisDay’s Tuesday, June 23, 2020 edition.
In the publication captioned, “With Wike, Obaseki Meets His PDP’S
Waterloo, Almost,” the Defendants maliciously and falsely portrayed the
Claimant as an unreliable friend/person.
The suit filed at the Port Harcourt High Court by Governor Wike’s
Counsel, Emmanuel C.Ukala, Esq, S.A.N, FCIArb, the Defendants further
portrayed Governor Wike as a selfish politician and a person who meddled
in and exerts subterranean influence in judicial matters in courts
sitting in Port Harcourt to achieve selfish political interest and that
he is not a true democrat.
He is, therefore, seeking an order of mandatory injunction compelling
the Defendants to withdraw, retract and recant the said libellous
publication.
The retraction is to be published at the front page(and to devote the
whole full front page to the publication of the retraction).
ThisDay Newspaper is also to publish an apology in the terms acceptable
to the Claimant and with his prior approval at the back page( on the
full-back page) in the same edition on which the retraction is
published, and two consecutive editions of ThisDay Newspapers.
The Claimant is also seeking an order of injunction restraining the
Defendants by themselves or by their servants, agents, privies, and
associates from further publishing the said libel or any manner however
and whatsoever continuing to circulate the said libellous publication
concerning the Claimant.